Gemma: I can´t believe another week has gone by already, time really flies here! This week has been a good week for meeting the locals. On Friday we went to my Spanish teacher´s house for a traditional Bolivian meal as it was my last lesson. I say house, but it was 2 rooms in an apartment complex, neither bigger than an average sized bathroom. She lives there with her 3 year old daughter, her husband died last year in tragic circmstances. Anyway, it puts poverty in perspective. She is a teacher, has a university degree and yet she can´t afford to live somewhere with its own bathroom, sink or cooking facilities. She is lucky, in that she has nice neighbours etc but she really has nothing. She gets paid the equivalent of 1 pound an hour
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