Saying Goodbye (cue Muppets take Manhattan)

Drinking puro outside my house.



Dona Vicky and Don Yonny threw me a going away tea party, and everyone brought food.



Then we went next door to Profe Negra's (the math teacher) for a proper drunkfest with some teachers. Rosa, Chela, Dawn, Profe Hernan (school director), me and Negra.



Dawn and I busting some moves.



Sair wants to join the party.



We're not sure how they knew we wouldn't end up taking the early micro (as planned), but people showed up to see us off in the morning, too. From left, Don Yonny, my host dad; Jacky, my host mom's sister who has a little baby/eats lunch with us/watches the novela at our house every day; Dona Uba who picked me up when I first moved to town and introduced me to the community; Profe Ruth, the English teacher, my first friend; Profe Negra, the math teacher and my neighbor -- she insists on feeding me (and occasionally Emily) every time my Dona Vicky goes out of town; Dona Vicky hiding in the background because she's crying; Profe Rosa teacher of life scienes thus my work partner; Jhon, one of my older host brothers who stays at the house off and on, who called me something like 8 times on my last day in Bolivia, Profe Marlene, who teaches social studies and makes me drink more beer than I ever should. Regretfully missing: me. I'm in the taxi,waving goodbye.