2 weeks!

It’s amazing to think that we have been in Bolivia for 2 weeks now. In some ways it seems like forever. So much has happened in 2 weeks. To start, we have just finished our first week of Spanish school at the Latinoamerica Escuela de Espanol. We aren’t fluent yet…but we are starting to understand more of what people are saying to us. (Much to our host family’s benefit!) We have also, amazingly, secured an apartment to live in here in Sucre. Honestly, we were shocked to find something so quickly. We were told that finding a good apartment can take several months and that often the apartments are spoken for before the add hits the morning newspaper. With that said we started the process last weekend, searching newspapers and making phones calls. The first apartment we found and went though had everything we were looking for, with a few added amenities that we never thought we would find here in Sucre. We signed a contract on Saturday and plan to move in by Sept 1^st! We do have to completely furnish it, including appliances, so that will be an adventure in itself. This will be a challenge as there are no stores here like Lowes where you can go and buy everything you need in one spot. (Plus no delivery!) Yesterday John, with the help of Derek, purchased a stove and carried it over to the apartment. That experience deserves a blog of it’s own, so I will let John tell you all about that later.

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