After two good weeks in Cochabamba, where we were getting further language training, learning how to design and write up projects, and staying out too late with friends for too many nights in a row, we took a trip to Aiquile, a small friendly town a few hours outside of Coch. It's home to Emily and Jasmine, two of our peace corps friends who are helping out the orphans and teaching good things to the kids of the area.
We went to Aiquile for a water testing workshop and learned all about how to make petri dishes and test chlorine and ph levels and look for poop in the water. Our plan is to install a similar lab at the water cooperative in Okinawa. Good fun. Kind of like chemistry class. Except we took lots of field trips, drank beers at lunch, and played wolley ball with our teachers afterwards. So, better than chemistry class. It was a great trip, Emily and Jasmine treated us like royalty, and we got to check out yet another beautiful part of the country. We planned to head back to Oki on Friday, but alas, all roads are blocked on account of political mayhem. So we're back in coch. Maybe tomorrow we can go home. . .
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