Day 3 in La Paz! Mostly been adjusting to the altitude (aka taking a lot of naps) and investigating museums and markets. Sergio and Stasia arrived yesterday morning and we immediately went back to El Alto (the huge Aymara city on the outskirts of the megacity of La Paz) for a memorial service for a friend of theirs. It was actually just a normal mass but the widow held a framed photo of Jesus with her husband´s name across it and we wore black. Crazy.
Today I wandered around to a modern art museum, which was cool because it mostly featured Bolivian artists. Some of it was pretty crazy, including a lot of futuristic paintings by this guy named Cosme which combined elements of machinery with skeletons and andean imagery. Totally weird and awesome. Also, there was a bunch of brilliantly colored paintings of picasso-esque Aymarans and their llames. I bought some postcards bc obviously my descriptions aren´t cutting it!
Tomorrow, we head to Copacabana! I´m super excited to get back into town, see the kids, and get to work! It´s going to be a pretty busy summer, as Sergio, Stasia and I have been making lots of plans to travel to other places as well as events in Copa and El Alto. There´s a wedding in mid-June in Copacabana, a huge dance in mid-July that we may or may not participate in, and then the festival of Santiago that we went to last year in Kollsuyu at the end of July. On top of all that, we will likely travel to Sorata (in the lower aka jungle parts of Bolivia), and maybe Potosi and hopefully the salt flats!! Oh yeah and I´ll be analyzing several hundred skeletons. No big deal.
In other words, this summer is going to go by wayyy too quickly but will be packed with adventure!
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I wish I could come visit you! Those are going to be some awesome experiences. Take lots of pictures and keep blogging!
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