Chas...

Meet Chas.

Chas is our monkey friend who lives at the internado.

Our friend Francie runs a monkey refuge, but this little guy is TOO little to live on the refuge right now, so rachel and the kids are "monkeysitting" for a while until chas is big enough to be released into the wild.

I have a million pictures...He's my favorite subject.

These are my favorite...

Chas eating my left over lunch...He liked the bowl:



Chas in my bed. This is where he falls asleep most nights. Then I move him to his bed:

My favorite Chas picture. This was the first day I met him....and YES, that is his pacifier...he also has a toy car and a toy grenade:

Chas after a bath. He was quite annoyed with me...but he was REALLY dirty:

And this is the "real" chas. I met him in 2008 when I was interning in Ixiamas. He came with a group...He interned last summer at the internado...and his nickname was monkey. So naturally when the internado got a "real" monkey...they chose to call him chas! :)

P.S. I can't spell check here. It does it in Spanish...so forgive any mistakes

Bolivia

So - I probably won´t have pictures for a few weeks, but I think I can do pictures when I go to lapaz. Word on the street is they have wifi.

SO - here´s what´s going on

1. I got my suitcase today. That means I have more than 1 and a half outfits...and I can start using a normal amount of deodorant, facewash and toothpaste.

2. The kids are back. Until Saturday

3. I´m buildng a rabbit hutch. Better than the ferro cement tank from two years ago, but still hard.

4. I love having my own room this time.

5. We´ve had GREAT food so far. We start bolivian food today.

6. I´ve had good coffee. Which is just unheard of in ixiamas. Becky being here sure helps things.

7. I´m having to do internet way more than I like.

8. WE HAVE A MONKEY! Named Chas. I love him.

9. We have kittens. I might bring one back.

10. I´ll try to post every once in a while.

Check back for i´m sure interesting stories about how I´m completely incompetent.....

Oh, in sad news, one of my favorite kids got kicked out of the internado. I´m going to go look for her in town to talk to her.

In happy news I found out Zoraida...my chicitita peligrosa...(dangerous little girl) still lives in town. Í´m going to stalk the elementary school to see her this week. We´ll see how that goes.

I´ll try to be a faithful for my 3 readers (thanks Rachel, SFL, Holli, A - MAYBE? and Cassie sometimes).

:)

Beach

This is DEFINITELY my favorite picture from Toomer House Beach Weekend 2010. I LOVE FEET, I LOVE THESE GIRLS, I LOVE THE BEACH! In that order. Kidding. I love the roomies more than feet.

Maybe.

There was a little oil. Cass, Britt and maybe Anna? got oil on them. I threw caution to the wind and swam anyway...oil free. It really is sad though. There were a few birds with oil on them, you could see it washed up in splatters on the shore and two roomies said they saw bigger tar balls down the beach. It really is terrible!

There needs to be retribution.

Seriously.

Anyways...

Love to the roomies.

I'm off to Bolivia

SO EXCITED!!!

I love my new little blog background and header. I finally figured out how to do something semi cute. It doesn't compare to some...but I'm happy!

I'm on hour 10 of traveling and we are closing in on hour 11.

SO - I didn't check to see if the flight was on time - Result: losing 2 hours of sleep
SO - I didn't check my bags right - Result...hassle of having to recheck them
BUT - THEY LOST MY BAGS - It's ar eally long story but when I initially didn't check them right, the girl was like "OH, I can't change them now b'c they are already on the plane and labeled." THEN, when I realized they were lost the woman was like "Oh, well if you're gonig to Bolivia we'll just send them there" ME - "Yeah, but do you even know where they are?" HER - "I don't know for sure, probably on the next flight."

I tried to explain to her that I am leaving LaPaz as soon as I get there, so there is no hope of me getting them "later." I don't think she understands that Ixiamas is either a 26 hour bus ride OR a $75 flight + a 4 hour car trip.

NOT EASY!

Oh well.

My mom is in Italy and there bags were lost for awhile, but they have gotten there.

In other news I am done with my portfolio....Well, except for 1 piece of info I'm waiting on and one paper I can't do until I get back in July.

HOPEFULLY they will let me turn it in late.

P.S. there is this really adorable hispanic couple to my left right now, they are discussing their kids who are coming in. The woman has a million questions and the man keeps answering her with other questions. She just told him she was sick of it. They are funny.

Okay. Maybe I will upload some photos soon.

LOVE YOU ALL - Check back soon for updates on life in Bo-town!