To all of you out there that know the lovely Toni.

I hear that she has just handed in her PhD. This is my own personal tribute to her... as i know it is one of the few pictures out there of her.... anyway i have a drink in hand for you now Toni.

Love jet

we are so rich...

here is some of our cash

So you don't forget what we look like

Anyway so here is me sick....



And here is me well again... yay...




Here is Tim with a fork





Here is tim trying successfully to look like Gaynor...

And these two guys were great

Independence day

So hi everyone. Thought it was about time that i up loaded some of the people from the streets for you to see. This was a parade day so some one them are especially dressed up. But i can honestly say that you walk past people dressed like this everyday. And often they are the majority of people around. That is the cool thing about Bolivia. The culture is still very much alive and westernisation hasn't yet changed everything.... well i guess the spanish had some influence here but still.....

But the cutest...

This is Isabel...

She is really cute. However she was responsible for the below mentioned sore toe. She hit it with a chair apparently. Thank goodness i wasn't there for that drama..

A complete angel!

Here are some of the kids

This is Santusa, she is one of the wee Quechuan girls I talked about before. She had all her hair shaved off so that the sores in her head would heal, hence the hat. When tim met her he said she was the closest thing to a wild child... she says a couple of things in Spanish now.
Here are the two little ones, Maria-Isabel and Javier
Maria-Isabel is Santusa's little sister. She is pretty crazy and has a bandage on one of her big toes at the moment. She is limping... very cute.

Here is a close up of Javier. he is the boy at the orphanage, his history is that he was left at the hospital when born. He is very very quite and has begun to call me mummy... but the other girls are always telling him to shut up, "she is not your mother".


And here... Beatriz, she is pretty special. Her mother was an alcoholic and she has fetal alcohol syndrome. She is clever and is pretty funny. The other day when we were having a cup of tea and some bread which we do everyday at 5 pm, she say... "well i don't think the cook knows how to cook very well..." was pretty funny cause usually she just says the same few words over and over again. She will stay in care until she is 16.

Oh Olga

So here is a wee video I made at the orphanage. The tall girl is called Olga, and the wee one Isabel. The little one at the end is Placida.

They were very exited to see their pictures.



If you can't see the clip then try this link

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1032112625100825228

Good news....

Oh so this is especially for Brigitte... cause i want her to see the good news for herself.

But it is also for the rest of you (skite, skite)

not even there and i make the ODT

And what about this?

ok so mum wanted more pics of me

Here you are..

I think i look pretty good

I will have you know that i have been giving tim his haircuts

So this pic was created by tims brother nick...


and brad also mentioned that he has been keeping a close eye on the hair stages..

anyway it is my way of keeping all these sluty latino girls away from him...



don´t tell him i said that..

oh yeah he is getting depressed that no one emails him... apart from his dear mummy that is... so his address is: tiddysmith@hotmail.com

Fruit market

Here is the fruit market...

looks very cool... i hope you can see that

New hamoc...

So we got our hamoc up and running...

there are a lot of "i bags the hamoc!" comments floating around....

Trip out of town

So last weekend me and tim needed to get out of the city so we went out to see this castle that they have here... it is only about 120 years old but is kinda cool cause the owners made it after doing a trip around the world and asking their arquitech to build it in heaps of different styles... English, Russian, Greek etc...

so here it is




While we were there they were putting this bridge up across this river.. anyway that was kinda more interesting than the castle so we sat at watch the bridge making... they only had 2 bulldozers to do it with... no cranes or anything, though they did have quite a few chains and metal ropes etc... anyway was very cool to watch....

Bingo

oh yeah at the fiestas they also have Bingo... housie... you know. It is one boliviano (20c) and they do the whole card once... they you pay again etc.. for the next round. Anyway me and tim thought it would be good for our spanish numbers so i put my boliviano where my mouth was and played...

lo and behold i won... much to everyones disgust... i had to read back all my numbers to check that i was telling the truth and that was pretty scary as they all began to laugh when i was reading them back... and i thought that my spanish was good.. then i realised i was reading them way too fast and that was why the laughing... anyway i won my choice of 20 Bolivs or a prize from the prize table... so tim made me get this...



admittedly i don´t regret it cause you can buy fresh camamile (sp?) everywhere which we have been enjoying in our new pot...

Festival on our street

HI all,

so the other day there was this big fiesta in our street basically... it was to celebrate some church or at least the saint of this church,... anyway here are a few of the things that were there...
Here is a place we ate tea... if you guys don´t know already then south american food consists mainly of meat and potatoes... here is a close up... of course i just had salad and potatoes... could have been one of the many things that made me sick...


Here is the women showing off with her BBQ...

Here is a game they play... note tim in orange jersey... what you have to do is drop a coin on the amounts... in it lands in the middle of a square you win that amount... if it touches one of the edges they win... me and tim think the edges are magnetic....

Also they are mad on fuzball... so here are a whole lot of the tables lined up... note church in background... that is the church.. anyway the fuzball was fun and tim won about 2 or 3 of the tourdaments (6 games for 20c), anyway i won 1... yay! and we drew one.