pictures!

I´ve got some pictures to share! They show some typical (atypical) adventures that just happen to end up as part of my daily life. So in random order I describe them: I finally made it to the shores of the lake that I see everyday as part of Dia del Mar (a holiday bolivians celebrate hoping to one day recover their coast-line that they lost to Chile), and it felt great to be on a boat even if I could see the bottom (only a couple feet down) the entire time. The adobe building is also a typical oven that is seen all across the altiplano.










The campesino hat decorated with yarn that I´ve never seen before, and have no clue where he came from or what the hat means.

A fellow volunteer below made a guest-appearance in my environment class...so this is a typical classroom and one of my 7th grade classes.

Evo in my site receiving the traditional adornations like flowers and other green plants and his own string of apples, a product people want my site to be know for. Plus the bolivian flag in the middle (on the left) with a sheet that is a continuous indigenous flag representation (to the right).

To the left is an Uru hut...a people that lived before the Incas or Aymaras and lived on the shores of the lake, and still exist in small numbers today.

And finally the famous quinoa plant that brings deep dark and bright golden colors to our altiplano plains. It´s cultivating season now, and I hope to help out one day if people will let me. Last year they would always just respond with no, it´s way too hard work you wouldn´t want to help, and I respond with well I´m saying I do, please let me go and at least take pictures =). We´ll see. So that´s it for now...this is here in the ending days of spring...if you can classify seasons in such a way here =) love from me.