Meet Thomas.
Today, Thomas walked into an office for his very first job interview.
Today, Thomas filled out his very first job application (in Spanish, no less).
Today, Thomas got his first professional job: teacher of English grammar.
In short, Thomas rocks. I have brilliant siblings.
Since the election 8 days ago, everything has been rather… normal. The early days were a bit quiet, but otherwise one wouldn’t generally know that anything was different. I haven’t any idea what happened with the folks marching on the city from the Chapare - as far as I could tell, they never arrived.
I almost [...]
Bolivia, frankly, is batty. Is it any wonder I love it so?
Yesterday’s election was a curious affair. The day was quite and calm. The evening, though, was a race of numbers in the news. Jim Shultz, a political blogger (strong left bias) based here in Cochabamba, has a good run-down of the election numbers released [...]
After a month or three, one readily forgets that life in a country with ungrounded electricity (Bolivia) is rather different from life in a country with grounded electricity (the rest of the world).
The difference swiftly becomes apparent when one feels little jolts of snippy-snappy electricity from one’s headphones.
In the ear canal.
Welcome to the coolest toy since the Sonic Screwdriver:
The Voice-Changing Dalek Mask.
With David, my ten year old brother, down with two types of amoeba parasites, three types of typhoid, and a bacterial infection… well, checking the poo has become a regular practice in the house this week. As another sibling marches down the street to the lab for testing, certain songs are being sung:
Today’s artsy projects include a logo for a new website project:
and the newly filled flower planters on the front porch:
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this past Tuesday morning, I had an orthodontist appointment.
Keep in mind one of my curious third-world quirks. This is Bolivia, yet somehow even though I’m surrounded by Latina Barbies with extremely glittery layers of makeup, I only usually bother with ironing and makeup for business meetings and special events. I’ve used starch [...]
Graphic designer Ben Terrett has a clever article about the differing graphical representations of the British Isles. He uses the phrase “higgledy piggledy”. Win.
(Image Copyright Ben Terrent)
Nicholas was working at a demolition site here in town. He was volunteering because it’s a church property getting set for renovation. He was knocking down a brick wall with a hammer, and apparently they weren’t giving their volunteers any protective gear to use. A brick exploded and hit his bare hand.
His right index finger [...]
