Fail

yah i am down the street again at an internet place. today after spanish class i went to a christian radio station. a guy who works there showed me around and stuff like that. the radio station produces most of its own stuff, it is the only radio station in the quetchua language, which a lot of people speak, but most of them are poor and live in the country. the radio station broadcasts all over the country and into Peru a little bit. anyway after that i went wandered around for a real long time thinking i might find something interesting. i didnt find much, but i stopped in a bookstore and bought a superman comic which was like 6 bolivianos i think. i wandered around some more and saw lots of statues and little plazas or parks. then i figured i might look for the market but i had no idea where it is so i took a taxi. i wandered around there for a while but didn´t really buy anything. oh wait i bought a piece of cake from a girl, it was tasty. then i wandered around some more and the stores started closing but these guys at a barber shop said something to me so i stopped and talked to them for quite a while. they were pretty funny. i should go back and get a haircut there sometime but i cant remember where it was. then i asked where the clothes section was and some guy showed me where it was. I cant remember their names now one was Roberto. I can talk some basic stuff but it is difficult to have a conversation. they told me a guy at another barber shop was Nabo (who is the president of the MAS party) yah, the elections turned out weird, Goni came in first, he is a guy who was educated in the states and was president before but he wasn´t real good because he sold bolivian companies to private US companies which raised up the price a lot. and then the guy who came in second (the Nabo guy, MAS) is against western influence and wants to take all bans off coca growing.(which they grow lots of coca here but there are laws on how much they can grow) he is a socialist and my family doesnt like him because they are decendants of Spain and he is only for his own people. anyway, like a week before the bolivian election the states said if this guy becomes president they will stop sending money, which means the military would have no funding. anyway, the thing is here, presedents can join after the election is over, so it isn´t real democracy. anyway, i guess they are going to decide who is president on the 6th of august. So if Nabo becomes president people say things will be bad and he will get assasinated. (as the military has the guns and he does not) my family says the future of bolivian economy is unclear. anyway, after the market i took a taxi to a grocery store and bought a snack, then i walked here where i am now. man i couldnt understand anything the last taxi driver was saying. i think he charged me about 30 cents american too much. i didnt feel like arguing though as i couldn´t understand anything he was saying anyway. i think tomorrow i am going to go back to the orpanage. who knows if i will find it again as i think i am going alone but oh well.