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Hola dear friends all over the world!

I've just updated my blog again and it's worth a look look!

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Best wishes to you all from Bolivia!

Your David

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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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Here are the first pictures from Bolivia. There are uploaded two albums on Picasa: First as slide shows, one from La Paz and Sucre out. Below are the links to it. I hope it works, most times writes as a comment if it works. Thank you!

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I'm a bit back and forth considering how I can bring in as a blog entry order and 've decided to refrain from any order, and simply write down what ever comes straight to mind and seems worthy of mention. So I do without it every day and every week to tell you exactly what I did, but more telling of funny experiences or interesting phenomena.

There is also nothing new in itself: I still every morning language course at noon after eating too much usually a short siesta, then free time. English is better soon, meanwhile I laber also increasingly easy for people and have a chat to be better in English. But as I anyway think I have learned that my available range of projects all Quechua, regions, I learn even important words in Quechua (one of 27 languages in Bolivia, that there is and I think to English the most spoken): for example : Chaqui means-as much as hangover (the hangover), an important word here.

always noon time. That is chilling in a cafe on a hillside overlooking Sucre, in the Plaza de Mayo 25 chill or go round on the markets. eat
evening after much too much (but good), read after then something (to my family: it is the truth, I have thus begun to totally voluntary;) do you think non-ne), or chatting with the family? , play with the children or ...

Sun gelabert enough, it goes the next two weeks, once more, stop on the weekend for a couple of trips or other program with the other volunteers.

For you Germans good news: you are totally environmentally friendly, since the following happened here after my first impression: almost anywhere public trash can, in some places Just big garbage heap. Fast-absorbing only fuel cars, some even from England, where the speedometer is still right and the steering wheel and pedals have been converted to left, but only in passing. Well today I had at any rate a little culture shock at the following experience:
I am sitting in the micro (bus), next to me a father and his two children about 2 years old. The children here often drink out of plastic bags juice, milk, yoghurt drinks, etc. But without straw, but just straight from the bag, which I do not think so hygienic, because the chewing on it ever since rum. In any case, the two boys on the bus so parts as they were empty then, has an older lady was sitting in the ever-open door, the father of the parts kindly removed and they just threw into the street. Maybe I'm wrong, but in Germany that would be funny or not?

The next problem is that I myself also throw everything on the floor. At first I was still trying to find trash, but usually without success. Clever as I am of course I had there was the idea with the trash bag, but I have no desire to run around from morning to night with garbage.

is the nearest small culture shock that the children here've been playing with a few years all sorts of PC games that are in Germany aged 16 or over 18. Just as I was told it is probably the Movies. Only somehow it seems the kids here in contrast to the Germans not to hurt my feeling.

goes after the course with me then so on: 13-September 18 From
I'm going to visit four available projects, as well as other projects of the other Fundacion Treveris. After that, I'm beginning to think one more week and then I work. The projects are (for Google Earth enthusiasts who want to look for it): El Chaco (45 min of Sucre), Poroma (2 hours from Sucre), and Tarwita Azurduy (do not know exactly how to write those last two do I removed 8 and 10 hours from Sucre).

Since I had stopped at this point to continue writing, I had a real culture shock. On the weekend we were in Yotala and had a short seminar on the health aspects, etc. In the city I met a man who looked at me with a grin and asked where I come for. On the answer Alemania "I got a question answered if I was for the son of Hitler, and whether we had come on foot to Bolivia. I think this older man has never left his village right in his life and has asked whether we had come on foot, not meaningless. Then it can also easily check if these people are informed in any way, and know little or nothing about the story (or as it now looks elsewhere in the world). About the Nazi period, I also have often talked to taxi drivers, some people want me to give pleasure by speaking with me to Hitler. But not any more so you are informed of Bolivia, as the people here about Germany, I'll write a little bit about what the country, but really very little, if you want to know more, buy the best, "Robert Lessmann: The new Bolivia ". At this point, so all who have no desire to read info on Bolivia to stop.

Bolivia is therefore at the heart of South America and since the Pacific War, the only one without sea. On the Human Development Index it is ranked 113, the last-placed South American. Bolivia is on the area three times the size of Germany, but only about 10 million people live. Namely from 36 different ethnic groups with 27 different languages, most speak English, Quichua or Aymara. Since Evo Morales in power, Bolivia is also defined as a plurinational state. It consists of 9 departments, whereby Bolivia can be divided into three geographic zones: Altiplano of the Andes (with the departments of La Paz, Oruro and Potosi), the high country, the exact name's on the tongue, but they do not want to get out. These include the departments (Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Tarija where I am). Finally, the lowlands with the departments of Pando, Beni and Santa Cruz. In Bolivia, there are 98 provinces, only 329 municipalities. Major cities are Santa Cruz (1.6 million), El Alto (a higher level slums of La Paz, but actually a separate city with 910 000 inhabitants. Only then is the government seat La Paz, 877 000. My city of Sucre, the capital, has only 281 000 inhabitants. Bolivia has many resources: natural gas, zinc, crude oil, gold, silver, soybeans, tin, and of course the largest lithium reserves in the world at the Salar de Uyuni, but which is not exported in large quantities, however, all industrial countries behind these lithium deposits. because who knows which drive the cars of the future or managed.
Many people think Bolivia is an Andean country. That may agree, but the lowlands share is more than twice as large. We are already on politics. For political differences are similar to the geographical differences. By and large there are two political camps: the highlands to the lowlands and Media Luna (half moon form the States Pando, Beni and Santa Cruz). So practically a East-West conflict. Since 2005, Evo Morales, former coca grower, was elected as president. After years of suppression of neo-liberal politicians, the great hope of the locals. The electoral victory of Morales is the extent to which locals have something positive, because they have gained by more recognition. Morales success can certainly emulate the following aspects: participation of the indigenous Population about democracy, poverty and the definition of a plurilateral State. Negative other hand, appear far, the reactions in education. Whether the strategy behind it, the people on purpose to keep "stupid" I do not know. Morales in 2009 was re-elected with large majority (60 percent). However, he has set, the Constitutional Court suspended, and since he is in power, the Coca cultivation is increasing enormously. Contradictions are severe penalties for drug abuse and the funding of public funds by drug money. Corruption is another thing here, of course, I'm sure that will happen to me that too. Morales has polarized the country enormously. The opposition exists de did not, or has withdrawn facto. Nevertheless, there is an enormous country split between the rural and the urban population and between low and high country. In the three media luna departments attended the richer part of the population, because there is oil. Morales has up to now, however, clearly placed on the side of the Andean population and therefore is not president of all Bolivians. That it is not hard enough to govern peacefully to 36 ethnic groups, further polarized Morales. Some even talk of megalomania or claim to be preparing a dictatorship from 2015, when he may no longer govern before. Clearly, however, also currently there is no alternative to Morales. And a democracy without Opposition can not function properly. Either the people are for or against Morales, what else is not. The economic situation: Morales has nationalized companies and was able to profit, that Bolivia receives for the raw materials increase. Inflation is at 20 percent, but not as often reported at 2-3%. Whether the overall economic situation has improved or deteriorated so rather, I can say that. Inflation is getting the poor people here feel enormously in prices. Bolivia has previously been declared as failed state, that is as ungovernable country. So that is not the truth, must allow Morales, the opposition to put the responsibility on the shoulders and wider establish quasi in Germany as a federal state. In addition, he needs a functioning communication to its base.
The situation is still very opaque to me and I do not know what to believe. Festival, the country is divided is very deep and there are always clashes. Morales big task it is the country not more, to separate. It might work or end in a civil war.

So now had enough of politics, so all in all it is exciting times here and I am trying to create an online photo album, so you see what you can from it.

Chau