Weeks 2,3 & 4

So its been a hectic few weeks here in Cochabamba but I´m still living the good life. Only one case of the squirts in 4 weeks is fine by me, especially when you see the amount of food I´ve consumed, nothing is going to stop me from enjoying the cuisine. The last 2 nights I´ve been to a small local celebration of teh 200th Anniversery of La Paz. Basically Bolivians just love an excuse to party, no different to any other country I suppose. And to us travellers jsut another excuse to eat the food and sample the booze. I had the pleasure of sampling some cow´s heart and might I say it was the most tender meat I´ve ever had.

Speaking of eating things, today I had the pleasure of combing the knits(headlice) out of some of the girls hair. I had been pretty cautious about wearing a headband everyday as I´m terrified of catching the little buggers and will be even more cautious after seeing them in every childs hair today. But one of the girls is like a professional nit picker, she was grooming all of the other girls heads. She reminded me of some monkeys that we saw at a national park the other weekend (thats a diferent story though. This little gril was running up to me each time she found a live one so that I could squish it with the back of my nail (you can imagine how thrilled I was about this priviledge). The only problem I had was once I had killed the nit the little girl carefully picked it off the comb and popped it into her mouth----GROSS!! Now please do not think that these children are starved- they´re not, in fact some of them would make pretty good little telly tubbies but they just eat anything that looks edible its incredible.



The park that we visited 2 weekends ago was called Parque Machia, its a National Park for rescued animals that they try and rehabilitate back into the wild. We stayed in the town and visited the park for 1 day. The attraction is definitely the monkeys, they just wander around everywhere and just swing from tree to tree, it was so cool to see them in their natural environment. We had what we thought was going to be a leisurely stroll to the waterfalls- how wrong were we- 2 hours later and a few mini mudslides we were back to the beginning- all in good fun, after all it has been a while since I´ve had to work up a sweat. Sorry to cu the story short but I need to run, will be in touch soon.