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Hola dear friends,
has now again changed a lot in Sucre. All other volunteers have traveled to the language course in their projects throughout Bolivia. Apart from Luke, who is also working with the Fundacion Treveris and me is now just another volunteer from Hildesheim in Sucre. In addition, volunteers are from Aachen, who have nothing to do with the partnership of Trier and Hildesheim and Bolivia.

What is in the final weeks of the course and the days after that happened:
In the last week I had the course, so to speak freely storm. My host family was in La Paz, to say goodbye to my host father, who flew from there to Germany. So I had to make a lot of time observations are in Sucre
it an escalator in modern supermarket, however, few people use them here. From time to time people come over to practice the upgrade on the stairs and then this happens sometimes accidents.
The next unusual happened to me in the pool. Suddenly, the pool ran around a man who held the head of an ox in his hand and was bleeding still fresh on. Apparently he had just slaughtered a bull and swimming pool right in front of the meat would now sell to the pool visitors.

was in the last course a big party week here in Sucre. The Entrada. Wednesday was the birthday of the Virgin Mary. Here in Bolivia, each department of his own Virgin. There is the Virgen de Guadalupe, which is celebrated in the Entrada Folclórica. It runs Sun Weeks and months before the start of dance and music groups to practice on and that actually every night on the road. Then there is the weekend before a dress rehearsal, even that is in itself a Riesenfiesta. This Wednesday there is then an open-air Mass and a procession of decorated cars with fruits, vegetables, animals and every conceivable kitsch. Friday starts the right party. On this day the dance groups from the country and from school are on the road. Each dance group has mostly before or behind a band or a music car. On Saturdays it is seamlessly with the dance group from the university and professional dance groups in Bolivia. The groups dance for hours into the night by 2-3 Clock. Sunday morning dance single groups again in the morning from 8 clock. The diversity of the costumes is very impressive that the music is not necessarily because it is similar to hymns and marches usually when the groups dance and you get a catchy tune. With the alcohol, it runs like this: Officially, the dancers must not drink, but are usually drunk when they arrive at the Plaza (the parade). If you have a drink in hand, it belongs to other zuzuprosten to drink something and then pass on his glass. I have seen the Entrada at the Plaza. You have a piece of roadside or buy a place in the stands. Actually, the most expensive places in the plaza but somehow we have clean cheated us. My voice teacher said, we would have been on television with the comment "The young people here drink a lot." Whether that's true I do not know.

the Thursday before the Entrada weekend I took a road trip on the country. Has never before been riding it was taught to me within 20 minutes and then it was also going on already, and through the first city out into the country. There were a few awkward situations where I nearly passed, but I'm still alive. Whether the little pig that I have approached still alive I do not know. The streets here are running around all sorts of animals. I have goats, bulls and pigs and dogs who run meets next one and we must be extremely careful. Overall it was a great tour, because I have met for the first time the country here.

had the weekend after the Entrada I have three days off. Luke and I went to Potosi, the highest city in the world, about 3 hours from Sucre. There we stayed with other volunteers and were in the mines. Potosi has silver deposits that were exploited earlier by the English. At times, Potosi was the richest city in the world. When you see the mines, you know how it is possible that such a resource-rich country like Bolivia, is now so poor. We had a four-hour tour with a former miner. Previously, we have in the market of miners still Coca and drinks for the miners bought. In this market there are dynamite and buy 96-percent alcohol, mixed drink or use to disinfect the miners. In the mines for over 8 million people died (more here: ). Today, the miners are still working with simple materials and under very poor conditions. They join together in small communities, but there is no cross-union. A community has a respective boss. Work is 7 hours a day, 6 days a week. Children 13 years working here. Without Coca endure the torments the workers would not. I've yet they felt unwell. 85 meters deep in the mountains there, concentrated, and exposed to toxic gases, sometimes totally hot, then really cold. The miners working during the tours continue as normal and you hear the dynamite explosions. The crazy thing is that you can talk to the nice Mineros and may invite them to Coca or something to drink. The miners are very proud of their work and tell them happy. We met Diego, one of the chief, who has worked for over 20 years in the mine. He said that he his work very much and he would never change.
went to Sucre back Luke and I will not coach, but a taxi. This is faster but costs twice as much (the equivalent of about 3-4 €). Once you reach the taxi stand and also a Touri is right all the taxi drivers rush on one and before you know it you're sitting in a taxi.

was now part of the Touri my stay in Bolivia ended. I will be with Fundacion Treveris (Trier) work. This is a German-Bolivian Foundation in Sucre, which is equipped with funds from BDKJ eg through the clothes collection. It maintains over 40 Lanschulinternate here in Chuquisaca, where most poor children and young people live off the land during the week. I visited with my boss already three projects near Sucre. Poroma, Luje and El Chaco. Overall, I can choose from five boarding schools: Poroma, El Chaco, Monteagudo, and Tarvita Arzurduy. Apart from Luke, and my boss also 4 students have traveled with us. We went by jeep. You drive by the time of dry rivers and rocky roads. Proper roads are just too many projects or Places. It is quite normal that you get people entrains the road, but our car was already with 7 people and two of them in the trunk full. Poroma is a small boarding school with 45 young people and also very poor. If I'm going to work here must adapt to low hygiene. On the day we were there it was at a certain time no more water. There is electricity, but any internet or mobile phone network. The Internet has a few animals a very small garden but next door is a huge football stadium floor. fit in as much as people here do not live across Poroma.

The next day we made a short stop in Luje also a boarding school of the Fundacion. It will be reviewed by the students all the time and there is always something to eat. Even a quick game of football played, it was off to El Chaco. El Chaco is a large boarding school with 70 pupils. How could it be otherwise, first there was lunch. Then we got a tour of the Internet from the "head boy" or a kind of Captain. In El Chaco, there are football and basketball teams. My duties here would probably then be a lot of sports, give computer courses, to help in the garden and help with homework. El Chaco is only 45 minutes from Sucre and the streets are paved completely.
Next week I visit Thiyumayu and Padilla. However, these boarding schools not in the list. Then it's for a week after Tarvita, Monteagudo and Azurduy. Then I have to choose a boarding school, where I want to live and work for one year. But I have more boarding schools will be visiting, so I have seen the end of the year as possible all at once. After all, that's my job to represent Germany and contribute to intercultural understanding.

In the next few days I will move into my apartment and leave my host family.

Once it is where I work, is also my official newsletter. Photos of the projects, Potosi, the Entrada and the motorcycling come soon.

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