My jeep back through the desert was pretty nice. I met two bolivianos, one just getting a transfer and the other doing the tour as a tourist- not something you see much of in Bolivia. I decided to jump straight on a night bus to sucre as I'm not a huge fan of Uyuni.
The bus was fine except the old lady next to me had a puppy that liked to sneak over to me while she was sleeping and chew on my new jumper. I couldn't get him to stop doing this without waking the old lady up so in the end we came to a compromise and he quietly destroyed my glove instead.
The bus was fine except the old lady next to me had a puppy that liked to sneak over to me while she was sleeping and chew on my new jumper. I couldn't get him to stop doing this without waking the old lady up so in the end we came to a compromise and he quietly destroyed my glove instead.
I arrived in sucre at 4 am but the driver let me sleep in the bus for a couple more hours till it was light and I could get to my hostal. And I decided to spend the day chilling out, with just a short walk round the centre and to the market.
So..... 48 hours into travelling alone I managed to get food poisoning! yeay. I believe it's my first time and I can honestly say that I never want to go through that again. Thank god I was the only person in the dorm! I didn't realise at the time but dermot then got robbed while in Buenos Aires. So not a great start to our solo travellings.
Luckily dermot was fine and my host mum came to collect me the next day and after some rest I recovered pretty quickly.
My host family are lovely. Lillian is a teacher in the school, marcelo is a doctor and they have three kids daniella 14, sophia12, and marcelito (little marcelo) 6. They've made me feel so welcome and comfortable and it's great being able to practice my spanish with them.
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| Lillian with Marcelito ready for national students day |
The school is brilliant too, with good teachers and loads of activities. Although my morning teacher has the disturbing habit of vigorously rubbing his hands together and winking - which makes me want to hit him. But he is very nice.
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| Fernando, Eli, Al, Andrew, Donna and me |
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| Al with his presentation |
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| one of the many, many parades |
Sucre is an old colonial town that's a bit smaller than Brighton, with pretty white building and squares and a really friendly feel to it. I'm really enjoying getting settled into a place and it looks like I'm going to learn loads while I'm here. So yeay!
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