Little surprises
01.29.2004Sometimes it's the little things that change your day. I finally got a chance to open the comics Bay Jo sent me. Wow. She included some pictures of when she, J. Edmund, Emily, and Dave visited me at my parents' days before I left for Bolivia. Those will be thumb tacked on my dresser for sure.
My cousin David also paid yet another unexpected visit. At 7:30pm, my cell phone rings & he informs me that he's back from Peru, in El Alto, and needs a place to stay. Since I'm working at O Mundo Café, I can't do anything but send him my way, where he has to sit & wait for me to close up at midnight. And since he's very evangelico, sitting in a pub for hours isn't his idea of fun.
After a long day, I spent the morning showing him around a bit (hospitality, hospitality). Which meant another day missed at the archives. I managed to hand him over to tía Lilia for lunch, w/ the understanding that I have to go work on data collection this afternoon (if just to make up for lack of any work on Monday). He's staying tonight also, which is difficult (again). I have to work at the café until midnight, and then wake up early for an 8:30am meeting w/ the director of ILDIS (Latin American Insitute of Social Research).
I don't mind visits from friends & family. I just wish I'd have at least a few day's notice to re-arrange my schedule.
Finally, in another suprise, there's a heatwave wilting Bolivia right now. The temperature in Santa Cruz reached 46 degrees (that's 114 Fahrenheit). La Paz has been unseasonably warm in the near 30s (about 80s Fahrenheit). And this following about two weeks of rain and nationwide flooding.
Posted by Miguel at 12:55 PM
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Sounds like the mosquitos will be on the prowl in Santa Cruz!
Posted by: Grant at January 29, 2004 01:11 PM
Try making me believe you miss Michigan Winter... we just got a ton of snow dropped on us.
Posted by: Melli at January 29, 2004 01:26 PM
holy heat wave batman! and here i am complaining about the snow... that sucks.
Posted by: sam at January 29, 2004 02:21 PM
Bolivians, if they arent' complaining abou the Ocean or Rain, ... it about the Calor! :) He he ... just kidding. I sent the CD's Today. 2 fully packed ;)
Posted by: Andres at January 29, 2004 05:48 PM
We are having a bit of a heat wave here as well. It made it up into the teens today. Went out without a hat...put it on after I went a few steps.....But just to b comfortable, not out of survival.
Posted by: J. Edmond at January 29, 2004 08:03 PM
46 degrees?? Yikes!! Thats terrible. It must feel like walking in an oven...
Posted by: Stephanie at January 30, 2004 10:16 AM