Our First Five Days in Photos

We are finally in a place with both internet and time.  We have been doing a lot.  It's been fun and also really hard.  We will write more later, but we thought that pictures would be just the thing right now.  So:

At the Minneapolis Airport, after an early morning.

The view from Elias's family's country house in Huajchilla where we spent the first 2 days resting and acclimatizing.

And the courtyard there.

From the river bed in Huajchilla.

Sam with Patricia, our incredibly gracious host and Elias's mother.

Neal and Elias's little brother Gonzi.

Enough said.

Sam looking cool.

Moon Valley outside La Paz.

Gonzi being cute.

A young Elias gets busy on the dance flo'

Feeding pigeons in a La Paz plaza.

Hanging out with Emma's former host family in La Paz.  We watched the local soccer team, Bolivar, come back to tie in a Copa de Libertadores match.

Neal is sick on our way to Batallas.  

Emma is not interested in being photographed..

Cereal at the bustling Saturday market in Batallas.

About 60 local high school students cram into a room to see a presentation about Scattergood and our environmental ideas before we go out to pick up some recycling after the market.

Neal and his fans.

Annie and Raquel, a solid basketball player and very sweet young lady.

A lot of bags of separated recycling.  Pretty good for 30 minutes work.  Annie does the "Irving".

So that gets us through Saturday!  More photos and stories to come from the last few days.  A brief preview: On Saturday we went to 2.5 hours of a 6 hour service at Emma's Quaker meeting in town.  We shared a great potluck lunch.  On Monday we mini-bused to El Alto and taught a lot of English to high schoolers at the local high school there.  Yesterday we were at the local elementary school in the morning, and came to La Paz in the afternoon.  Today, back to the Quaker School in El Alto.  

We've now officially been here for one week.  Whoa.