A glimpse of the variety of beautiful flowers and plants all over the place down here. Brings a little smile to my face every time to see some diverse creation of our Heavenly Father that I never even knew existed before hand.
A Ken Block tribute... the people here like to deck out their cars to make them look like they're from Fast and Furious or Need for Speed....it's pretty funny to see a Toyota Corolla with under glow and a fin....
My companion and I can butt heads at times.... but it's a little hard to stay angry sometimes when he makes me full blown pancakes (VERY RARE in bolivia).
Paired with the various plants and flowers..... there are more fruits here than I thought were even edible. This thing is called a ..... yea I don't even remember.... kinda tastes like a lemon starburst!
More than half our area is dirt roads.... and occasionally with lots of rain.... some sinkholes show up. First and only time I've seen this... the workers had to shovel all the sand out of the back of it onto the side of the "road" before a tractor very dangerously pulled it out with a cable that was literally going to snap at any second.... don't ask me why they ship more sand in in dump trucks when half the city is made of sand.
The rumors were somewhat true of the crazy food I've had to eat here. I've had cow utter, chicken stomach and heart, and this was my most recent: cow tongue... a little chewy for my liking... almost gagged thinking if the animal could somehow magically still taste me tasting it. Chicken and rice is in 99.99% of my meals here. Cow meat is a little more rare, maybe one in every 3-5 meals.
One night we had to turn our power out because they were power surges and we didn't want our AC to break (although it did later and we had to wait a week to get it fixed) so we planned to candle light... pretty enjoyable actually.
Oh the joys of Bolivian insects... this thing seems to have traveled a long way from the ocean floor somewhere.... and you'll notice in comparison to my plaque.... its shell is slightly larger than a golf ball.... a little smaller than a raquetball. Didn't have my camera with me when I saw a caterpillar the size of a small snake with an inch and a half diameter.
Yet another insect.... these ones luckily just like to eat plants, tomatoes in this case. If you're not within 10 feet or so of a solid ant hill or marching ant line.... then you're probably not in Bolivia either.
About 100% of the people here are Catholic or have been at some point in their life... a little difficult to teach sometimes.... if you look closely, you'll notice even this beetle on my desk is carrying a cross.... a common symbol for the Catholic church to use.
There was a motorcycle accident with a head on collision with a car RIGHT across the street from where we were teaching a few nights ago... the motorcyclist do not respect other drivers on the road around here and it's not good that about half the vehicles around here are motorcycles. We heard all made it out of the accident alive.
There are TONS of dogs, cats, chickens, roosters, etc. in the street.... many of them poorly cared for :/ pretty difficult to see at times.... but I occasionally recognize the bark of a mini doberman pinscher (just like my dog Heidi) and give them a little badly needed love.
Bonus pic for my photography skills ;)
