La Cancha

Today I taught at a wonderful orphanage called Arce de Noe and we went to La Cancha.

Arce de Noe is a wonderful little orphanage that has about 30 boys ranging from 5 to 18. The teaching was a success, thank the LORD as this is what I needed after two challenging days. If I hadn't heard horror stories about the adoption process in Bolivia and my husband was here as well . . . I probably would have tried to take one of them home with me.

La Cancha is the largest open air market in South America. It is also the only place any HOH volunteers have ever been robbed. Never fear, no one got any of my stuff! I tried to haggle but the lady running the stall seemed annoyed that two gringas were trying to haggle with her so I pretty much let it go. This market has everything you could ever dream of - including some things you might rather not know exist such as dried llama fetuses. Apparently, if you burry one of these under new construction it brings good luck. However, I will never be able to get that smell out of my memory. It was awful! They also have some pretty normal stuff - pirated DVDs 3 for 10Bs ($1.15). They are a bit risky - we think we bought the movie where the Rock is a nanny but the description was for Avatar. I guess we will find out! I bought a few items but since I didn't need tiny packets of shampoo or really crazy underwear and can't eat the food (although the fried parasites do smell good) I didn't do too much spending.

Hopefully we will be going camping with our AUB friends but only time will tell!

Chao!