(Thursday)
Ok, so right now, jumping into a pile of snow would be sooo good. Even the Bolivians are saying it is too hot. Went to la cancha again today and nearly melted from the heat. LouLou went all 'Room with a View'. We went to buy offerings for the monthly pacha mama event tomorrow. The aisles were crammed with coca, herbs, trinkets and hundreds of llama foetus, some tiny alien things, other fluffy cuties, but all v stinky and we had to try not to retch infront of the sacred items. There was a big no photo stance - this one is form web. Apparently Evo has brought in much strictor attitudes around the way the sacred traditions are exploited.Talking of Evo, we stumbled across a long line of people queuing for rice. The media is adamant that there is no food crisis, despite failing rains and reports of hoarding of maize, sugar and rice by shop keepers keen to push the prices up. There was also some bloody skirmishes in La Paz with coca growers http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14919&ArticleId=380522. We have been looking at the graffiti too, lots of anti and pro fascist stuff. Where´s a can of spray paint when you need one?
So, we are going to try and combine politics and language skills - god help us - and see if the local NUS will do a message of support for UK students, will keep you posted.
Tonight we are going to a guitar concert and then spending the weekend preparing a presentation on UK for the kids - can't wait to show them pics of Chas n Dave! We are also going to a local hotel pool with some friends to chill. For our last weekend, we hope to go to tropical area for a day, but it includes going over a 150ft rope bridge across a gorge. LouLou is prepared to risk this for a glimps of a toucan and other flaura and fauna. Tenis is not so easily presuaded, so he may have to sit with a beer and a book and watch from afar.
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Hello LouLou and Tennis, Loving the blog! Sorry to intrude something even vaguely worky, Lou, but I need you to choose Xmas lunch with me and Laura, now at Watershed on the 16th! Do you want for starter: Soup / Salmon Gravlax / Pork, apple & chestnut pie / Squash, onion & feta tart? And for main: Roast beef / Turkey / Mussels / Chestnut & lentil loaf? Bet that all sounds yum in 100 degrees of heat. Ken & I appear to have sold our house & move to Chippenham on the 13th. If Tennis likes guitars he must come over & play Ken's collection - 9 electric, 1 bass & & 1 accoustic! Anyway, keep having fun, it sounds amazing.
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ReplyDeleteHappy to eat anything that is not deep fried meat and very salty!:
Salmon and mussels please!
Call you on 14th,
LouLou
Been following the Cancun talks and counter-convention and theres a new paper saying Bolivia's drought is long term, caused by Global Warming, and the Capital is in dire straights and may not have a future. Stark stuff. Here, yesterday's Climate Demo in London had 1500 people with Plymouth UNISON banner the only TU banner on the march. There's a lot going on, but this is clearly a signal that Climate is way down the agenda again. Not good. Big demos by students coming-up on Thursday, La Lotta Continua.
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ReplyDeleteCan you change mine from mussels to Beef if in cream, ta
Lou