Sorry that it’s been so long since I updated my blog properly. Here’s a brief update of what’s been going on:
Fr Bob popped by to Bolivia. (As you do).
So did the Mother Superior.
(For Fr Bob we danced and sang. For the Mother Superior we sang and danced.)
My camera broke.
The Hogar truck was stolen in Santa Cruz city.
The summer holidays from school have started.
My camera was fixed.
Yesterday was a fun day. It turned into an impromptu art day which involved getting the girls to draw and colour pictures. The plan is to bring the best of them back to the UK and to sell them in order to raise more money for the girls at the Hogar. I will have plenty with me by the time I get home, so if you’ve ever wanted a picture painted by a Bolivian orphan, now’s your chance! Plus, with the current exchange rate over 15 bolivianos to the pound, every extra pound can make a difference!
For those of you who want to learn more about the Hogar and how you can donate money to the girls and the work of the nuns out here, then you’ll be pleased to know that you’ll be able to get involved. Fr Bob’s visit (which deserves a blog of its own, really) marked the start of an exciting project, details of which I will send to all as soon as possible.
That’s all for now!
Simon
P.S. One final note to all lonely male hearts out there:
In the last census of the country it was found that the ratio of women to men in Bolivia is at least 3:1. Just a thought.
Saturday, 17 November 2007
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4 comments:
Singing? Dancing? Ratios? I'm there!
Although any theft is of course a bit of a bummer, I am slightly jealous that you now have an anecdote involving a truck that starts "Well, I was in Santa Cruz city..." It's almost worthy of Jack Kerouac.
I hope you were not in charge of the truck at the time! Is this another fund raising oppurtunity - a new truck for the Hogar?
To Jon:
Perhaps I've been in the back and beyond for too long, but what does Jack Kerouac have to do with having a truck stolen in Santa Cruz?
And don't forget that there are ratios in the UK too - they just don't get out as much...
To Paul:
I wasn't in charge of the truck at the time, the director of the Hogar was. She popped into a shop in Santa Cruz, came out and found that the truck had disappeared. How could anyone steal from a nun?
As for a new fund-raising opportunity, it had crossed my mind, but a new truck would cost around $30-35,000 and apparently there's no second-hand car market here... I'm afraid the cost is just too much to even consider trying to fund-raise, even in the UK...
Because it's the sort of crazy anecdote that Dean Moriarty would recount...random events happening in places that aren't Frimley or other such dull provincial places.
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