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jordan, it is good you graduated, have fun in ontario. i am at another internet cafe with some other white people. i just got back from a place called ante which is a small village in the altiplano. the altiplano is a big plane high in the andys mountains. i left a week ago before that i did some cool things but i cant remember them all because it has been so long. but i remember my trip to the cancha (the big market) with a guy andrew. we walked around and bought some underwear and stuff for our trip into the country (the altiplano which i was just talking about). after we bought patatoes and meat on a stick which some lady was selling on the side of the street. it was pretty good. we sat down to eat it on this cement thing in a very very busy area and some lady offered us some seats. they were just those little fold up lawn chair things but they were okay. she asked us where we were from, and some other people came over and talked to us for a bit. we bought this orange juice that this guy was sqeezing. all pure oranges for only 1 boliviano (which is only a couple cents). we asked for disposable cups but he didnt have any, he said the glass ones were clean (yah right). some other guy came over and tried to sell us some braclets, which i ended up buying one, actually i am still wearing it. oh yah, and also before our trip to the altiplano me and andrew also hung around with lisa again (the girl from england) we ate at this restaurant called casa de campo (country house) i ordered pato (duck) that night my stomach was nasty to me, and my mother here said it might have been because duck is hard to digest if you eat it right before bed. oh, i just read the end of my last post and i didnt write about the orphanage. the orphanage was probably my highlight of bolivia, i might go back there later next week. me and two other girls went there. it is a great place, kids stay there who´s mothers are in prison. (the kids elsewise would have to stay in the prisons too) we took the kids back to the prison (they only stay at the orpanage for 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon) and usually i dont think people are allowed in the prison (not guys anyway, its a all ladies prison) but shirley (the lady who runs the orphanage) said pick up and kid and just walk in, so that is what we did. oh and one day i walked just by myself up to to the christo (a big statue of jesus up on a hill) there i took a few pictures. these people said some things in english, so i decided to talk to them. anyway, now about my trip to the altiplano. well, before we left the two jeeps we were going to take (gregs and toms) both got the windows stolen out of them, on seperate occasions. so because of that we didnt know if we would be going or not. but, they ended up getting their windows back, off the the stolen market. the stolen market is what the missionaries call the used store which sells stolen things. anyway, we left and drove for quite a while, it was pretty fun because it was alot offroad driving and the there was a lot of dust. i was in tom´s jeep and for some parts we drove on greg´s tail with the lights off because it was actually easier too see that way, since there was so much dust and the moon was pretty bright too. sometimes the road would dissapear in front of us and we would hit a bush, that was pretty funny. we ended up in the place we were staying at like 2 in the morning i think, it was real cold. sleeping was pretty cold too, but not as cold as when we had to sleep in tents, which i will tell about in a second. anyway, the first day we were there we went to a church conference. (which is like where a bunch of people come from all different churches) anyway we went there and our group did much the same thing as chapary (the jungle area). they also sang alot and there was preaching. we had a meal of soup and llama. anyway, the next day we went to a place where we were putting a roof on a church and putting down flooring and stuff. that is where we stayed for two nights and it was pretty cold, i had to use lots of blankets. oh yah, back track a bit, we also stopped in a city called oruro on our way to the altiplano. there we borrowed some blankets which was a good thing. anyway, yah so for a few days we worked on the church. for part of the second day i was feeling sick so i slept alot. before we left the place where we were building the church some of our stuff went missing. we offered money and to who could find it and it showed up. (except my hand sanitiser and work gloves, which someone said some lady had them but no one at the time knew whos they were) anyway, after the church we went and piled these rocks for some reason. we were pretty dirty. that night we sent off fire works and it scared the sheep and they knocked over their rock fence. it was pretty funny, no sheep ran out though they just knocked over the fence, then we repaired it. in the small villiages the people will come and stare in your windows. i guess they want things. we gave someone some bread and all of a sudden out room was filled with people, that was cool. after we left the altiplano we were heading for lapaz (a big city here) and tom had a flat tire, and we used up the spare. we hit this big hold and a chunk of bone popped the tire. anyway, later tom got a leak in his gas tank so we couldnt go to lapaz. tom went back home, and greg drove us to this resort with hot sulfur bath springs, it was pretty good. it was good to get clean. then this morning we came home. greg also got a flat tire. when we got back we went to the cancha (the market) and i bought a new wallet as mine is garbage, and i also bought a shirt which is too small for me. am i supposed to but things for people at home?