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3200+ Words

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Pictures tell a thousand words, right? So this will, by far, be my longest post. Vacation is officially over for me and I am now back at Familia Feliz with seemingly endless afternoons of free-time after work in the mornings.  I figured it's probably time for an update as it has been almost a month since my last post.  As promised, this will be my special travel edition in which I will recount the adventures Corbin and I had on our trip.  Due to the hundreds of awesome pictures we took, I decided to do a sort of picture journal with captions and some paragraphs mixed in.  Enjoy! (remember, you can make the pictures bigger by clicking on them.) Front row seats on my three-day Pampas Tour in the Amazon.  My group was made up of 7 others all from the UK except for one from South Africa. This would explain why I returned from the trip saying things like "queue" when talking about lines and using "nice" to describe food. Federico the Caiman - The ecolodge

The Imitation Game

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The school year is officially over.  Final grades are in, graduation is over, and nearly all of the kids are gone.  It’s been a pretty jam-packed week, but despite posting last week, I wanted to write another entry for a couple reasons.  First of all, with all that has happened, there is plenty to write about. Secondly, I leave for my three and a half week vacation on Thursday, and will not be taking my computer.  Because of this, there will probably not be a post for about a month, but when that post does come, it will detail all of my traveling adventures. I am pleased to say that our Christmas program was a success!  With the resources we have here, I think we put together a relatively high-quality production.  It was mainly a musical program featuring voices, and handbells, but I also had a few acting scenes as Jesus.  The kids seemed to enjoy it a lot, and it was a nice touch for our last Sabbath with everyone here. The following Sunday, we had our last family free-time w

A Very WWE Thanksgiving

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Holiday season has officially arrived!  Unfortunately, though, it probably has more drawbacks than benefits for SM’s, at least for those in Bolivia.  School and work continued as usual. Being away from family was pretty tough, but it wasn’t too bad thanks to my second family right here in Bolivia.  Once the kids were in bed, all the “parents” got together to have a Bolivian-themed Thanksgiving. We had veggie loaf, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, rice, salad, rolls, apple cider, and apple crisp for dessert.  The ingredients may have been Bolivian ones, but it was a flavorful Thanksgiving meal that I will never forget. We’ve actually been quite the party animals recently. In addition to our Thanksgiving mini-feast, some of the SM’s had a game night a couple weeks ago.  I made empanadas for the whole group and we played some fun games including watermelon bowling, squeegee shuffle-board, pass the banana (with your feet), and shaving-cream-soybean toss (one participant’s face is la