Sunday, January 25, 2009

Mérida

hola todos! I am now in Mérida, with my host mama, Zulana. She is very wonderful and taking good care of me. Tomorrow I will start attending language school in the mornings, and visiting cooperatives and missions (social programs) in the afternoons.
Two days ago we all got to see Chávez. I was 10 feet away from him, which was very exciting to me, as I´ve never seen my own president. He spoke for an hour about workers rights, it was really interesting to see how people react to him - they adore him.
Some of my friends and I made friends with two guys we worked with one day at a farm, Barulio y Cesar, and they showed us around Caracas, and Barulio took us to meet his whole family! Everyone in Venezuela is so nice and welcoming!

(it appears my camera is having some language barrier with these computers...picures eventually)

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