¡Hola! ¡Hola! Mary here, reporting live from Bolivia. i´ve had another great trip here in Montero. We´ve been working with great gusto at the Cruz Roja (Red Cross) Clinic performing incredible feats of manual labor. You may have to see the pictures to believe what all has been accomplished in just a couple of weeks. Sand, bricks, cement, rebar, mountains -- you name it, we moved it.
As always, the food is fantastic. My favorite has been the fried piña.... mmmm.... so good!
It is also a joy to see old friends from the trips in the past. Esneida and Franklin are well and living in Santa Cruz. Esneida had another little boy, Jose, in December and he is muy guapo. and little Daniel is also good looking and loves to play paper, rock, scissors. His uncle Daniel is done with school and working at Villa Cochabamba full-time. He and Armando have been translators at the Clinic and have been a great help there. Olga came to our farewell dinner last night and says hello to Olivia.
The time here has flown by again for me, and we´ll be leaving tonight for Miami. Goodbye fried piña, motorcycle taxis, and buckets of sand!
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It was really fun being with the work team. We had an amazingly fun and nice group of people on our team. This doesn't sound very humble but I was seriously impressed by the amount of heavy lifting we did. Of course, I'm easily impressed. And no, I did not force all those little children to carry things for me...they volunteered. Really. Everyone was so nice and welcoming to our group...we enjoyed the high regard resulting from many years of devoted, warm presence in Bolivia. Thanks to all those who came before us for paving the way with integrity and enterprise. Countless people said to say hello to Olivia, who was missed. Thanks, Hillary, for recording our journey and for being a good roommate. It is a complete mystery that any place without room service and feather pillows could be such a great place to visit. How is that?
ReplyDeletewe love all people coming to Bolivia, because left yours family at home, take your vacation for work and soo hard here for us, for our comunity. God Bless you all.
ReplyDeleteLove for Mary, and all family Griffin, hugs for David whom assist to Dr. Richard i think, pastora Carolina, we love many many many....
GOD BLESS YOU AND BACK HERE NEXT YEAR PLESE.