So I've done it. I've set a date to come home. I'll be back in Seattle on the 21st of June (assuming no problems) after a whole lot of travelling to get there. Mark your calendars! I will be in Seattle until the 4th of August, when I will depart for my next adventure. I am so excited to come back and I can't wait to see people and eat sushi. On the agenda for my time home is a trip to see my sisterling Pepper in Montana, which is too exciting, we're going to make t-shirts, and also a lot of time up north with my lovely grandparents and...lots of other stuff. Lots of vaccinations, lots of love, lots of events to be settled.
Life here is good. It feels like it's simultaneously gotten busier and also slower. My project launch got messed up by factors beyond my control, but I've been here long enough now that I've just rolled with it and it ha
ppened rather suddenly (or so it felt) on the 16th and 17th. I´m so relieved to have that done. I was so nervous that something would go wrong but in the end, I just spent all day running around buying food while the workshop participants happily...participated. (Photos: Team-building activity with balloons and work in groups)I will be finishing work this week and after I am taking 2 weeks to do the last 2 things on my Bolivia list. I´m going to go run around the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos, outside of Santa Cruz and also, the Salar de Uyuni, which is an enormous salt lake that you go driving over in 4 day treks to these islands out in the middle of all the white. Or maybe I´ll go to the Yungas instead of one of those things...I don´t really know but Bolivia is my oyster. I´m really glad that I decided to take the time to do that before coming home.
I went a couple of weekends ago to a festival/fair thing that was billed as "La Feria Internacional," so International Fair, I guess. It wasn't very international but it was very interesting. There were moments when it felt like it might be something you would see in the states, but something was just sort of...off. Every major Bolivian company, airline, the electric company, mayonaise brands, were there with enormous elaborate spaces set up. Every single one had at least 2 girls with their hair straightened and their makeup perfect in ridiculous dresses in company colors. The highlight was finding a coffee booth that actually had a proper bar and smelled like America. Seriously exciting. There were rides and tons of food. Almost all of the food, sadly, was Bolivian BBQ, which means meat off the grill and not much more. My group at at one and ordered an ENORMOUS platter of meat and french fries. It was stupendous. The whole thing was right over the top and a little overwhelming. Oh progress.
I was nasty sick with what I had been told was an amoeba that would clear up on its own. It didn't seem to want to go and proved unpredictable. I am feeling better and can eat again. Yay! I´m amazed that something took me down that badly this far into my time here, but I suppose that amoebas know no bounds.
I have submitted to my ego and my desire to keep an archive, so I started a blog. Mostly it's just the Chronicles posted and a couple of links to relevant sites and my photos, which have also finally gone up on Flickr. You can find the blog, if so inclined, at http://www.mollieadventures.blogspot.com/ and my photos are linked there or are on Flickr under mollieadventures. The photos are more exciting.
I must make a plea to you all. I have lost my Shon. I know. It´s terrible. But Shontranae´s email no longer functions and I can´t find her. It kills me, so if anyone knows an email for her, send it along!
Ok, I hope you all are well and I´ll see lots of you when I´m back in Seattle, which is too too exciting. Know that I´m thinking of you and write me!
LOVE!
Mollie
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