Hola everybody!I´m here, I´m here! In Bolivia that is. I have been here for three days now (I think, the days are kind of hard to tell apart.) The trip down was okay. All the flights left on time and we had only an hour delay at the airport once we arrived in Bolivia. Then, we had an 8 hour bus ride. Ouch! That hurt! 8 hours on a road with square potholes and some of the scariest driving I have ever seen. We tried to run over people, horses, goats, dogs, pigs, (we thought we were going to have pork for dinner)...and we managed to hit a bird. The country is beautiful out here despite the poverty of the people. There are brightly colored birds, beautiful trees that are entirely flowers called tajibo, and they have mantaqu(sp) everwhere, (coconut trees). The food is excellent here as well! I´ve never tasted such good food. Last night we ate at a church members house and had some of the more normal cuisene around here. I would try and tell you about it, but I don´t know any of the names. Let me just say that almost everything was cheese and bread and most of the time fried. Oh! And the chocolate! Cassie, I´m bringing some home so that we can drink it. The work we have been doing here wasn´t quite what I expected. We went to the Chaco, (camp), the first day and the boys started cleaning the pond and the girls picked up dried branches and palm leaves that had fallen after a storm. It was fun. We managed to catch a few crabs, disturb a giant ant hill, (and I´m mean giant!), and Luisa and Laura made leaf ¨minis¨ skirts out of large palm leaves. (more to that story later. )The second day...Ummm...what did we do? Oh I guess that is kind of today...I told you all the days were melding together. I´m tired, to sum up, the first day we got here, we ate and went to bed. Second day: We did an out reach program at a tiny town whose name I can´t pronounce or spell. It was so fun! First we went out and invited people. We did that by teaming uno American with uno Bolivian. I ended up with two boys, (Marc said that they both counted for a half. I never did learn their names) and we went out to the very outskirts of town and gave out tracks along with inviting people to the school to come see a show! We had a great time, I can´t speak a lick of spanish and they can speak random words of English. One fun thing that we did was asked somebody if we could have a couple of her lemons to eat from a tree outside her fence. She said yes and we managed to shake some out of the tree between the three of us. I was the tallest so I grabbed a hold of the branch and the other two boys managed to jump and grab the lemons. After munching on that snack and heading back to the school, (lemons are sweet here), we saw another tree with some other kind of lemons on it. But the difference was that it was in somebody´s yard. I THINK we ¨took¨ them without permission and then got caught. It´s okay though, the lady said it was okay in the end. The show at the school was awesome. The La Palmera school has a group called King´s kids who do choroagraphy(sp) and they put on a show for us. They are very good! Then we put gliders together with the little kids and gave out candy. Eek! I´m running out of time and money! These keyboards are going to drive me crazy! Deb, edit my post and correct my bad grammer for me please.For lunch we went to a really fancy resturant here and had the best beef in the world! There are no words to describe such a lovely taste. It was good. ( and no Dad. It has no name).Then we washed the chairs for the church. They were old white, plastic lawn chairs that needed washing. Then, after dinner, we went to a futbol game! Our team won! 9 to 1. Eek! Love you all!