Janaki: On Location in Santa Cruz Bolivia

Hello everyone!

Hope you are all doing really well!

I just wanted to let you know that I made it safetly to Santa Cruz, Bolivia early Sunday morning....while travelling for over 24 hours from Calgary through the United States to South America is not something I´d choose to necessarily do regularly the trip went faster than I expected.

My fears of having to explain my visa situation in broken Spansh to custon officials at the Viru Viru Airport upon arrival were put to rest quickly as we were shaddily asked to press a red button as we walked through the sensors...and that was it! Patricia´s parents (German and Elva) and her uncle Guido were right there to meet us and take us to our quaint little Hotel Aeronautico in the core of the city.

So far we checked out the Expo Cruz...comparable to the Round-Up Centre displays at the Stampede only on a larger scale: they sell everything from soy cookies (yes!) and houses to what we could only assume top be genetically modified cows (yikes!). The India display was highly amusing..pretty much a steel company´s capitalist public relations advertising disguised as a cultural pavilion...nope, no chana masala here.

Apart from that, our days have entailed catching up on the sleep that we have both been lacking for what feels like months now and getting to know the streets around us. Also, I´m learning lots of Spanish thanks to Trevor´s mad teaching skillz (and that frankly, i have no other choice cause English isn´t very common at all....which is just soooo good for learning).

Sounds like we´ll be working on the project relatively soon, so that will be great...will keep you posted!

Anywho, take care of yourselves and let me know how you´re doing.

Hasta luego!
janaki


Now she just needs to get herself a blog....