Holy Japanese town in the middle of Bolivia! Who knew? Okinawa is beautiful (sort of, if you use your imagination), the people are friendly, the palm trees are green, and the streets are lined with trash and waste water. There is no short supply of work for us to do there. This week we spent a few days getting to know the town where we´ll spend out next two years, tagging along with Rudy, Peace Corps Volunteer man of the year. He has left some big shoes to fill, having constructed fifty ecological bathrooms for families around town, twenty some gray water systems, and also did the ground work for a municipality wide recycling program. Still, there is plenty left for us to do, and when we move to Okinawa in three weeks, we´ll start the process of talking to town leaders, families, womens´groups, youth groups, etc to find out what kind of projects will be most beneficial and where we should direct our energy.
We´ll put some pictures up when we get back to our laptop and flashcard in Cochabamba. For now, party on. We´re soon to be bonafide volunteers, just three weeks left of training, and then we´ll be set free to do the good work we came to do.
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