¡Bolivia, estoy aquí!

So I´m in Bolivia now!!! I arrived on the 13th. I spent a few days in La Paz (so cold!) and was able to get some touring in. Then on the 16th I took a bus down to Cochabamba which is where I´m going to be until August.

I LOVE it here :) my Spanish isn't so great but the nurses at work tell me "poco a poco" so maybe by the end of the summer I'll be decent enough to not sound like a complete idiot.

I'm working for an NGO (non governmental organization... basically a non profit). My NGO is focused on health, specifically reproductive health, so I mostly work with women. It's called CIES. I started work last Monday, and Thursday was a feriado, so counting today I've only worked 5 days. I'm with one other guy from BYU and he and I are going to go on rotations around the clinic. At the moment we're working in the emfermaria, so we're working with the nurses, and then in a week or so we'll rotate to a different part of the clinic. Apparently we're going to travel to schools and teach sex ed and such. The coolest thing I've gotten to witness so far was when I shadowed an ecografia doctor for a day-- so I got to see sonograms and stuff :)
besides that I´m mostly taking people's weight and blood pressure.

I'm with 7 other byu students. And we're going to be here until August. At the moment we're in a dive of a hotel and looking for apartments...

-natalie