¡FELIZ NAVIDAD!

Merry christmas from Bolivia! So the past couple of weeks have been pretty hectic, the Ross family arrived and stayed at the Hacienda for a while, we had the christmas babywashing, lost power because of a eucalyptis tree and a wind storm, and broke a tienda´s window playing soccer. Needless to say pretty crazy! I bought a bike the other day in La Concha and have been riding it with the orphans! We also made a trip out to Kewiña to check on the progress of the two orphanages being built there and bought two pigs for the Deaf Orphanage. It was pretty awesome and Kewiña is probably the most beautiful place I have been. I haven´t had to serenade any drunks and haven´t gotten lost on a truffie anymore so I would say its been a couple of very successful couple of weeks, but then again they´re always successful when you´re working to help others.

HOLA!

So my name is Jed and I'm a new intern from New Hampshire in the US. I'm gonna be here for sixth months and have been here for two weeks now! Cochabamba is awesome and has already provided me with some crazy experiences! For example, my third night here i serenaded a drunk bolivian man for two and a half hours on the steps of La Hacienda, where i am staying, and then a couple of nights later i got on the wrong truffie thinking i would do some exploring and ended up an hour and a half later in the middle of nowhere, pitch black, and the truffie was so packed people were hanging on to the side and riding. Little did i know that it was the last ride for the night and was making its final stop out in the middle of nowhere! So with some very broken and horrible spanish i was able to ask the driver what i needed to do to get back and he pointed to a very tiny truffie heading the other way and i jumped out and chased it down. Rode it back to somewhere (not sure where) where i got out and took a taxi back to middle of Coch. From there i proceeded to walk about 2 miles back to La Hacienda. Needless to say i had had enough of automobiles.



So my time here has been very exciting and so much fun, working at the orphanage and the center as well as doing baby washing every weekend is such a blessing and so much fun to do! God only knows what the coming weeks will hold!