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Published: September 4th 2006
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Cheapest transport in La Paz. These will take you anywhere for 1 boliviano, or about 15c NZD. The most important sentence in spanish for me at the moment. Can I buy a bottle of water with out bubbles please. I drink at least 2 litres a day and I´m beginning to think thats not enough as I have developed a pretty sore dry throat and a cough. Other then that still no other bad effects from the altitude so I consider myself pretty lucky.
I finally caught up with James and Julie on Friday and have hung out with them during the weekend. Its great to catch up with some freinds and have a good all english yarn. If you want to get to know to know these poeple more and what they are doing check out their blog at
James&Julie James and Julie took me to a spanish youth meeting at a church on Saturday night and I was able to met some of the people who work here in La Paz. There are lots of different organisations here at work. I met some of the other teachers at James´s school and also some Youth for Christ workers. Everyone I met is keen to get me envolved which is awesome and already some of my
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A moneky at the Zoo hospital with a broken leag. weekends and nights are filling up with activities.
The Youth for Christ guy, Randy, works with the shoe shine boys and hangs out with them in the evenings and takes them for hikes in the weekends. The hikes they go on are in some of the most impressive natural sceneray in Bolivia. I´m going to join in on the hikes whcih will be amazing.
This Tuesday at James´s School (NICS), we are having an ultimate fressbee tournament with the kids. I´m a gringo import on the kids team and we are going to kick some ass.
After the youth meeting we went out for dinner with some of the kids and teachers and other workers. Dinner was at a nearby street corner and consisted of Antichoco, cows heart. You know what though, It was delicious. Everyone were a bit suspect on me eating that kind of food so soon after landing. It usually takes time for the stomach to adjust and there are plenty of horror stories of people coming down with the nastiest food poisoning.
Something I should explain about food here is hardly anything is kept in a fridge. Most of what I eat
The mighty Condor
The bird in the top left is about the size of a large seagul, so you get the idea of the size of these things. is brought of the street and its probably only good for that day. Bread goes stale in a matter of hours. You can forget about Milk, oh how I miss milk. Drinks, water, coke, none of it is cold. Its not too bad though, if they keep it out of the sun it can stay at about 6-8 degress. I do miss having a refreshing coke. So that brings me to the meat. The meat is left ouit side for most of the day so you can see the problems that could occur.
At least the Antichoco we had was at night though, so it was colder then normal plus we ate from a stand with a high turnover of people. Still its pretty sketchy watching the lady massage the bloody cows heart with her hands before cooking it. I should point out that there are heaps of resturants where the food and drinks would be cold and refridgerated, but its a matter of cost. Do you want to spend $2 NZD on a meal or $5.. Hmmmmmm, hard decsion. Importantly, beer in most cases is cold, thank goodness.
Talking about money this place is insanely cheap. I
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I made a few good intercepts but let the team down with my heavy boot and near constant misses at crucial times. But hey, how many people play soccer on the top of Mt Cook. live on about $6 - 8 NZD a day, and that includes internet, food, drinks, transport. Everything except accomodation which is still really really cheap.
a bus to anywhere 20c NZD
a taxi to anywhere 50c
a bottle of water (500ml) 40c
internet for an hour max 80c
a meal with drink $1 - $5 depending on where your eating, inside or on a street corner.
local beer from a pub $1 - $2
Heiniken from a pub $2.20
entry to the Zoo 50c
Boy was the Zoo depressing. It did have some animals that we didn´t have, like the mighty Condor, but they were not the happiest looking animals I´ve seen. Highlights would have been the mating tortouise. Overall the Zoo was worth a visit and for 50c, who can complain. Its a bit of a local sunday hangout as well, paked with families having picnics and playing.
On Sunday we met up with some of the same kids from the youth meeting and some new ones, including one guy called "dude" and played a hell of a lot of games of soccer on a concret field. Running around at altitude left you dead on your feet every 30s.. I was pretty hopeless buit James Ronaldo Bellingham scored 4 goals against some pretty good players. Soccer is a huge part of life up here and they play it every weekend with out fail.... When an international team has to play Bolivia they always place in La Paz, hows that for some sneakyness.
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ha bro your doing a wicked job heaps of respect 4 ya hope your better now no more giving eye drops 2 people ah bad dude !!!!! all good here everyone says hi !big hugs from lily oh and ruckus charlie just says thwpppppppp till next time big ups bro! oh your car b home next week cheers bud