We are in the final three weeks before departure and with it comes a few new items that we need to do so we don't experience any problems while we are down there. The first item is one that we all are pretty fond of actually, and that is eating a bowl of yogurt with active bacterial culture every day. This is something that was recommended to us in order to up the level of good bacteria in our digestive systems to prevent the oh so common travelers diarrhea that you may have seen the commercials about. Almost all yogurts these days have the active cultures except for the "dessert" yogurts which we don't care much for anyways.
The second item is the chloroquine that we have to take to try to avoid that nasty Malaria disease that the mosquitoes can provide. I normally don't mind taking medication, especially to prevent a problem, but these are roughly the size of a quarter around, don't have a nice slippery coating on them like aspirin does, and if you try to break them down to something more bite size, they are unbelievably bitter. Luckily, we only have to take it every two weeks until we return from Bolivia.
The second interesting item is that we have had a slight change in plans as far as our teaching goes. We have been asked to teach at a second location besides El Jordan. Apparently, our contact in Bolivia has been talking to the people who run YWAM and they asked if we could also come teach at their group home as well. It means a little more travelling between locations, but it also means we can teach more young people so we are good to go.
I also received an inventory of the computer equipment that is down there and what state it is in. After reading it over, Lukas and I will be reinstalling all their systems and getting them in good working order, before we can do any instruction. Apparently they have received very little attention since they were donated and are not running very well. I almost prefer it this way because it gives me the opportunity to possibly show some basic computer hardware skills to the kids and its always easier to bond with someone when they get to be involved instead of just sitting and absorbing information.
