The day after Tunari wasn´t so great. I woke up still not feeling well and I also had to say by to my host mom who so lovingly put me to bed last night. Becky and I frantically packed and ate breakfast so we could meet at the instructors house at 10:00. We took a couple last pictures and gave our family BIG hugs before we left. It was SO sad saying bye. My host mom was crying : (
It was hard because I just spent a week getting to know this wonderful family and in reality I probably won´t see them again. Luckily, Charo and I are facebook friends!! Sadly, that is probably the only type of communication we will have between the two of us. I got on the bus and found out that my friend Andrew wasn´t feeling well also and was throwing up the night before. I sat next to him and tried to comfort him like he did for me the day before. I gave him a plastic bag just in case... a couple minutes later he missed the bag and threw up on me. EW! It was only on my leg though which is good. Our group plan for the day was: 1) hike up to the Cristo, which is a big statue of Jesus overlooking Cochabamba and 2) have a meeting in the botanic gardens. The instructors told Andrew and I we could sleep in a hostal instead. With no food or energy in me I gladly took the offer. All day Andrew and I slept in our own private hostal room feeling awfulll. The instructors checked up on us every hour. I wasn´t even really sad that I was missing the activites because I was feeling crumby. I was sad, however, that I was missing my last day in Cochabamba. I love that city!
8:30 came around and it was time to go to the bus station to go to La Paz. We were taking a 10:00 overnight bus to La Paz which was 7 hours. I wasn´t looking forward to it AT ALL. We luckily got the bus with bigger seats that reclined. I got a window seat! The bus wasn´t nearly as bad as I thought. Even though I had 24hrs of sleep already, I quickly passed out. We arrived in La Paz at 6:00am.
-End of boring and uneventful day 12
It was hard because I just spent a week getting to know this wonderful family and in reality I probably won´t see them again. Luckily, Charo and I are facebook friends!! Sadly, that is probably the only type of communication we will have between the two of us. I got on the bus and found out that my friend Andrew wasn´t feeling well also and was throwing up the night before. I sat next to him and tried to comfort him like he did for me the day before. I gave him a plastic bag just in case... a couple minutes later he missed the bag and threw up on me. EW! It was only on my leg though which is good. Our group plan for the day was: 1) hike up to the Cristo, which is a big statue of Jesus overlooking Cochabamba and 2) have a meeting in the botanic gardens. The instructors told Andrew and I we could sleep in a hostal instead. With no food or energy in me I gladly took the offer. All day Andrew and I slept in our own private hostal room feeling awfulll. The instructors checked up on us every hour. I wasn´t even really sad that I was missing the activites because I was feeling crumby. I was sad, however, that I was missing my last day in Cochabamba. I love that city!
8:30 came around and it was time to go to the bus station to go to La Paz. We were taking a 10:00 overnight bus to La Paz which was 7 hours. I wasn´t looking forward to it AT ALL. We luckily got the bus with bigger seats that reclined. I got a window seat! The bus wasn´t nearly as bad as I thought. Even though I had 24hrs of sleep already, I quickly passed out. We arrived in La Paz at 6:00am.
-End of boring and uneventful day 12
Above is a picture of my instructors at the Cristo. I wasn´t there but this picture was taken for me!
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