Short and sweet!

I am coming home for a bit… free. Is that short and sweet enough?

Ummmmm?

Well I am sure most of you have heard by now that they chose to suspend the Peace Corps Bolivia program for awhile… needless to say Bolivia lost some cool points.  Sometimes Peace Corps is like coaching the worst team in the league… on a very bad day but as they always say, there is no where to go but up. For the record I am still safe, healthy and happy.  All the volunteers where evacuated out of Bolivia on a couple of military flights on C-130s to Lima, Peru. No, there was not attractive women serving coffee, warm meals and mini bottles of booze to everyone. Instead, there were cargo net seats, earplugs, men in their Bolivian flight suits and a sack lunch provided by Peace Corps. Lima is an awesome city, with an ocean and that of course means seafood. Usually I get my seafood craving out of the way when I am in Alaska during the summers but this year I missed out. So of course, I had to try the cerviche that Peru is famous for. We went to a hole in the wall for our cerviche and it was amazing. Cerviche is basically fish that is in a sense cooked in the acidity of lime juice mixed with an assortment of other produce but that all depends.  That was for starters then for the segundo I had a plate of rice mixed with seasoning and all kinds of other seafood including squid, octopus and an assortment of other fish. The seafood sent my taste buds spinning after the some what bland food of Bolivia. I am looking to direct transfer to another country as soon a possible. With this option I will not be able to go home but I will not have to go through a lot of the paperwork that I had to do in the first place to get here. I was just starting to get things rolling on my project and I saw way too many people in need to give up now. I will let you all know what happens when I can… um and pictures too when I get around to it.

Bolivia is cool… carajo!

You might be wondering… Why is Bolivia cool? Well, just read the recent news on the country and that is one of the many reasons. There are many many more but that should keep you all occupied for at least the next week where my blog might be blessed with another entry. For anyone who is curious, here is the US embassy website link http://bolivia.usembassy.gov/ . Needless to say I am still safe, healthy and above all happy… so don’t worry about the hairy situation in Bolivia… it’s not worth it. Something a lot more important is that I finally cut off my goatee, tears were shed and stories told then WHAM! after seven months of growth my manly mug was as smooth as a babies butt with fine grain sandpaper stuck to it. Keep living the dream.