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Hola!

Since last entry I have had 2 of the best nights of my life - not just in my time in Bolivia, no I really think these will go down in the ´best days of my life - period.´ list. Friday night was the 17th anniversary of Mosoj Yan. We were invited to the party in which each of the centres took part. Our girls performed a dance routine they made up (with the help of Hannah and I, of course). They did so well. Hannah and I both commented that we were sitting feeling sick with nerves for them perhaps as a proud mum would of her kids in a school play or something. We were so proud of them! After the evening officially ended Hannah and I hung out with our girls from our centre. It was just nice being with them outside of their house (the anniversry party was in the main Mosoj Yan building). We took lots of photos, met lots of people, lots of fun! I was the happiest I´ve been since i arrived here - if I ever manage to get photos on here you´ll see my grin hahaha! Get your grill out! (Or traintracks?!ha)

Last night (Sunday) was the joint service at Calama Baptist. Best church service I´ve ever been to! (sorry lyndsey haha only jokin..) It was incredible! It was a joint service for all languages at the church and each nationality took part. Spanish, Portugeuse, and Quechen, and my team plus the canadians represented the English speakers. The Portugeuse music was crazy! We loved it! It takes a lot to get me clapping my hands but last night it took more to keep my feet on the ground! It was absolutely fantastic, the whole service. Such a sense of union. Each nationality sang and clapped along to everyone elses songs etc.. At the very end of the service the final song was in spanish (words translated roughly something like ´the victory is mine, the victory is mine, over and over´with a couple of closing lines). Anyway yes, so everyone sang it through in Spanish loads of times, then the lead singer was like ´can we sing this in portugeuse?!´looking at the portugesue crowd and a couple of them started it off and the rest followed, then in quechen one man came up and took the mic for a couple of verses, then he looked in our direction for an english representative. We were the minority so I dont think he really expected much response from us but as we were all nudging each other and trying not to make eye contact with the guy, phil (canadian) runs up and grabs the mic and leads it in English! Aw it was awesome. Such craic. Our part in the service was a drama which went quite well I think. Well, it must have done cause the pastor made it very clear that if we wanted to do anything next week it´s totally fine. I politely declined.. We were also asked to lead a whole English service! So that´s gonna be in 3-4 weeks. They just can´t seem to get enough of us haha.

Oh I´ve totally fallen in love with all the girls at my centre. It took a few days to get settled, but now after the party on friday and everything its just great. I really look forward to going and I´m really really happy. They are such amazing girls, I dunno if I mentioned their names before but in case not they are Joseline, Naomi, Carla, Nieves, Rosa, HannahMaria and Lydia. Between ages 12 - 17.

My Spanish is coming along well. I´m underdstanding more each day, slowly but surely..
We had our first sickness this week - Katie was sick fri/sat but totally recovered now. Heather was a little too but she´s also fine. I´m still fit as a fiddle and heathly as a.. hmmm *insert your own similie*
So much I could write but only one min left here. Oh! I held a puppy today - and got my photo taken - I promise! haha
Chao Chao..