Such an Exchange Student

Being away from home, in a third world country, where you dont exactly speak the language, and youre not with anyone that you know... is difficult to say the least. It has had its ups and downs but there is one thing that totally keeps me grounded...the other exchange students! People who are going through the same thing that you are and who can understand what no one else can. The things we get up to as exchange students would make anyone else think we were crazy but to us, we can justify anything with the sentence "Im in Bolivia". Last weekend i had a bunch of the exchange students over and we had a baking day!!!! all of us made something from home that we missed, we had guacamole and nachos, nutella pie, deepfried oreos, petitebeurre cookies and tea!!! it was one of those days tho that by the end of it we needed to be rolled out the door and undo the buttons on our jeans. even running laps around the house or dancing the kevin couldnt fix the food baby we were all nursing, none the less tho, we had a blast.  This last week has been especially eventful for me, Hailey, a girl from Wisconsin moved houses like a block away from me so we have been having lots of city exploring adventures together, we even did some volunteering at a school helping with an english spelling bee. we've gone shopping and figured out the best buss line ever and the other day we went to the plaza and shotgunned sodas with Sarah...because were cool like that and the fact that its in Bolivia makes it that much cooler. This is only a taste of all the random things we have gotten up to, and there is a list of things yet to be accomplished.

i learned the hard way never to walk under a mango tree in the spring...they hurt when they fall on you. its like there should be a sign WARNING; FALLING MANGO ZONE. meh, all part of the Bolivian life.