Over the past few days I've tried out some of the local food, it's pretty yummy! Went out for an almuerzo which is a lunchtime meal involving salad, bread, soup, meat, potatoes, rice, pasta, meatballs, vegetables and jelly (the jelly was for pudding - don't worry) all in all this cost £2, can't complain really, and didn't have to eat for quite a while after all those carbs. Yesterday we went out for a pique, which is basically a sharing platter of meat, and I mean a LOT of meat I, of course, didn't know what meat exactly and definitely ate cow udder, but it was pretty tasty really! This was after I'd already had a full on cooked lunch a few hours before, I may well be unrecognisable when I return.
Yesterday evening was incredible. We drove up the mountains (I say we, but thankfully I wasn't driving as that wouldn't end well) and spent a few hours swimming in a pool under the stars, it was boiling as it was heated by a thermal spring and was absolutely gorgeous, the views of Cochabamba on the way back down were stunning, I took some photos which do it no justice what so ever, but this is something like how it looked... feeling very blessed to be here.
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I realise I haven't actually written much about the work I've been doing, whoops! I taught my first English lesson on Thursday, English grammar is tricky at the best of times, explaining it in Spanish was quite a challenge but I think it went well! Also helped make cakes with a group of women and have been helping in the 3/4 year-old classes most mornings (this tends to involve colouring in pictures of animals) everyone here is so so lovely, the sense of community is really special.
Hasta luego x
