Hello People! Things are still going well in my site. I am still helping out at the school and my friend from a nearby site came to visit me the other day so I now have some pictures of me in action. In the pictures I am working with the younger kids at the school and we are doing a race where they have to match up the correct pictures of different types of foods to their nutritional groups. We played the game a few times because it always takes repetition before they really understand. We have been working on the same general theme of the basic food groups for the past few weeks now. I just have to figure out a new way of presenting the material every class. The older kids are showing some progress but it does take a lot of repetition. Even though there are only 3 food groups in Bolivia, (they have a different system than the states) the kids still have a hard time remembering what types of food are actually in each group. Aside from school stuff I also had my first “practice” with my women’s group for a dance we are going to be doing at an Artesania festival coming up in 2 weeks. The dance is very simple and the women have only been talking about practicing it for the past 3 weeks. Generally meetings start 30 mins. late which is pretty good for Bolivia. There are volunteers who have said they waited 1-5 hours for some meetings to start but the women in my community are pretty good. What I found funny was that on the day we FINALLY started dancing there were probably only 3 women from my community in attendance. So my friend and I are going to be dancing (she was visiting that day) as well as one of the nurses in training from the health post who is from La Paz. See all doctors and nurses have to do some practice in the campo (for very little money) before they go back for some more school and finish. It’s sort of like a service they do for their country before becoming real doctors and nurses and it’s almost like volunteering since they don’t get paid much. Anyways, the point of me saying this is that the nurse who is doing the dance just arrived in my community so already half of the members doing it will be sorta like outsiders. It’s ok though, I am glad I have something new to do now for the next couple of weeks. Oh and also the place where this Artesania fair is going to be held is in another town I believe is called San Fransisco and to get there the women from the group walk something like 3 hours up a mountain and possibly at night. SO this means I will be walking up a mountain in a couple of weeks. It’s an interesting way to integrate myself but I think it will be really good. I am also glad I have been getting to know more about the other communities near me. I think it’s great that when an event is going on somewhere everyone from nearby towns always seems to know and some people decide to go and celebrate. This weekend I am supposed to go to Entre Rios which is another town a bit further away for what I believe will be another tournament. I have been wanting to go there because I hear it is very nice. On a final and total random note, one of the girls from my classes came to visit me last weekend. She just showed up at my door after lunch. I was in the middle of reading so she came in and I gave her some hot chocolate. We ended up playing chess (yes, she actually knew more or less how to play) and even though I could have won like a million times I kept helping her out with her moves and telling her where to go. I know I am no master chess champion but somehow I still managed to help out a little Bolivian with her game. We also played pick up sticks which she kept winning so that was fun. I also had to make my lunch so I did and offered her some. She asked me where are the potatoes? I thought that was very funny and I just started laughing. Well that is my random story for now. Of course a few days later I get a knock on my door at 8AM (this NEVER happens) and I look outside and the same girl and her friend are standing there. They wanted to make sure I was coming to school. That had to be like the cutest thing ever. PC always warned us that at the beginning a lot of kids might always be around our house but in my site I have total privacy and no kids did that at all so this is a first for me but I think it's nice they feel more comfortable coming to talk to me now instead of just staring at me which is what PC was talking about when you first arrive at your site. Ok so that's it for now. I am having a good time getting to know more of the kids at my site and will be back with more stories as they come. 
