Yet another week

From this day, there's exactly four weeks until our plane will land at Helsinki Vantaa airport. That means that we have less than a month left at Corazon Grande and Bolivia, before we return to our lives in Finland.

Our project that we started about one week ago is going great, thanks to all of you who have helped us. The support we have got from our friends, family and others has been overwhelming and I can already tell you this project is going to be a great success! And it’s not over yet. We hope those of you who still want to participate will do it before Friday 15.11, though it’s not the end of the world if you miss the day – as long as we get the money before we leave! 

While the project has been running we have continued with our everyday life here in the heart of Bolivia. Life at the house is going smooth, and as many of the girls only have exams left they are spending less time at school and have less homework. During the past week we have baked cookies and traditional Finnish cinnamon buns with the girls, who by the way loved them! Otherwise everything is mostly the same, nothing special. Oh except that I yesterday attended a parental meeting at one of the girl’s school, while Julia had to manage the evening routines at Casa Baste alone. This is a very typical situation here; that someone asks us with a ten-minute warning if we can attend a meeting or pick up the girls from somewhere etc. No matter if we’re in the middle of English teaching, cooking or whatever. And now when I’m on the topic, I think I’ve never mentioned that Julia and I actually attended two parental meetings almost right after we arrived to Bolivia. You can imagine how much we understood of the discussions and how absurd it was to even be there. 

Laundry time!

Our little Yanina helping out as always.

a tired tía Julia

a dogs life - at corazon grande

When we’re not at the house or with the girls we still attend private lessons in Spanish three times a week, I’m dancing salsa twice a week and during our free days we mostly sleep, hang out on town, eat good food and so on. This week we spent our free day visiting Christo de la Concordia, or as we friends call him; Crisu. The Cochabamba Christo is standing on San Pedro Hill, 265m above the city, and 2 840m above sea level, so you can see the statue from all around town. It is 40,44m high, which makes it the largest Jesus Christ statue in the world, even 2m higher than the one in Rio de Janeiro! Despite the warnings of it being dangerous, we had decided to walk up the stairs leading to the statue. Maybe not the best idea to climb up the 2000 stairs in the mid-day, without any shadow and one of the hottest days so far. Not even the muggers can deal with the heat, so against all odds we didn’t get mugged jeijj! 

It didn't sting?

And down in a cable car....