I survived.

Santa Cruz, Bolivia -  January 21, 2011 - 2:30pm

Can't believe we made it this far. Today, Ashley and I finished our first workshop! With 3 people! We had a 50% retaining rate it seems. Wednesday's workshop went well, we lost two people but it was still a fun class. That day we found out we got a new apartment. We were SUPER excited. We had lunch at CineCenter, which is a mall that has a movie theatre inside. I had a lomo saltado wrap. They don't make those in the US. Cool stuff. It was pretty good too.

AFTER lunch came the long day. We were asked to teach a 3-day workshop at night along with our day-time workshop, so we agreed. But we came into the apartment and it was dirty, etc. So we took a short trip to the supermarket and bought some stuff but we barely had time to drop it off and leave for the night workshop. We showed up at the Canoto Ward, but only 3 people showed up. We had to cancel it. It was a good and bad thing because we were really really tired but we still wanted to teach the workshop. In the end, we came home and slept hoping there wouldn't be any bed bugs. Did I mention that only ONE room (the main bedroom) has AC? I'm trying not to complain, I really am. But seriously? Dirty floors, washer and dryer that don't work and questionably dirty gross mattresses. It was a long night.

Thursday was better. We were really tired and we really tried to make the workshop animated but they could tell we weren't giving our 100%. There was a Sister in the ward who cleans office so they hired her to clean our apartment so it would be in living conditions when we came back. That was really really nice of her. One less thing to worry about. We crashed after that workshop and unpacked our stuff.

Today after the workshop, we ate at a local place behind the Employment Center and then walked back to our apartment. We have the day off but got invited to a wedding tonight so that should be fun. I'll probably take a nap before then though. Tomorrow we're going on sort of a YSA trip to some place I can't remember, but it should be fun as well. AND on Sunday on our Workshop 1 Graduates, Reynaldo, invited us to give a talk at his branch's meeting out in Warnes Province. We have the next week off!!!

Now time for a nap.