It's 8 am in Bolivia and I am wondering where exactly I will be going outside of La Paz. I have several places I really want to travel to in this country, but the weather does not seem to be on my side. Bolivia is in a state of emergency due to flooding and the roads are at there worst. Some busses aren't even going the routes that I would need to go to get to the salt flats and other cities, or the busses are being delayed to the point where I am not really sure when I would make it back again.
Update:
It's 1:30 pm and I have just returned from a long walk through La Paz and I found the Mujeres Creando building!!! It took some walking, but it really wasn't hard to spot. A bright red building with feminist decor inside and out. They have many campaigns, many projects, are responsible for quite a bit of graffiti and they have won me over. It is places like this that make me want to be 100% fluent in Spanish. I am heading on a bus to Ururo today to find a hostel and make reservations for the weekend of Carneval *spelling?* and then I am going to Sucre, BUT when I return to La Paz you can bet I will be spending quite a bit more time at La Casa de La Virgen de Deseos, Mujeres Creando headquaters extraordinare. http://mujerescreando.org (I suggest reading "Evo Morales and the Phallic Decolonization of the Bolivian State" under the english articles. To learn more about Mujeres Creando in English you can always gooooooogle them). I really wish I could teleport everyone from the UW Q-center and the Women's center to see this...
A girl just passed by the hostel computer area showing off a great looking tattoo she had done today. Getting tattoos in 'third world' countries? Sounds like an adventure, a very inexpensive adventure... Scared yet mom?
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