Welcome

Dear Friends and family-

Thank you all for taking the time to read my blog. Many of you requested to receive email updates of how things were going in Bolivia this spring, so i created a blog to keep anyone who is interested up to date. Feel free to share this site with anyone that might be interested. I leave for Cochabamba on Wednesday January 17th. I will be staying there until the end of April. I will try and post weekly so check back next week for my first entry from Bolivia. Thank you all for your support and prayers during this exciting and challenging time in my life.

Here a brief synopsis of what I will be doing in Bolivia. I am attending intermediate Spanish classes at the Maryknoll Language Institute. This school is run by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and is world renowned Spanish language school that also teaches Quechua and Aymara, two native dialects. I will be taking classes four hours a day, Mondays- Fridays. The rest of the time I will be at the Villa Amistad. This is the orphanage in Cochabamba run by the Amistad Mission. I will post more about living at the Villa next week when i am settled in.

If any of you follow South American news, you might have seen that there has been some unrest in Bolivia the last few days. This is a fascinating time to be in a country that is undergoing siginificant political changes. In the coming weeks I hope to write some about what is going on with the political and social situation. I have been informed that all is safe for travel and that the disorder is limited to the downtown area of the city.

Thank you for reading. Check back in the next week for another post.

Gray