At the park with Nelly!

Liz, Nelly and the turtle

Last week Liz cam back to Cochabamba for a few days with her husband. Liz and Nelly had a built a special relationsship. As Nelly was not in the hospital anymore, I went to pick her up at the family where she stays at the moment and the three of us went to the park for a little while, before Liz had to leave for good. Nelly was so happy and we all had a good time. The goodbye between Liz and Nelly was a bit tearful for both of them. They really had grown fond of eachother and I am sure Nelly will never forget Liz and Liz will never forget Nelly.

Here some pictures:
Liz and Nelly

Liz and Nelly on the slide

Nelly and me

Liz and Nelly

Picknick at "los molinos"

Yesterday Hernán and I packed our backpack with some food, took a bus to the hills a little outside of Cochabamba and spent a lovely day there with a short hike, a nice picknick and the most beautiful weather. It was good to get a bit out of the city. Here some pictures:

Little boy we met on the the way back. He got some of the leftovers from our picknick and was really happy!

April 12th: dia del niño (day of the children)

On Thursday was a very special day for the kids at the hospital. It was dia del niño, day of the children, and that meant, that the day was going to be different than all the other days at the hospital. And it certainly was a special and unforgettable day for most of the children. There was full program all day with little theatres, clowns, games, baloons, cake, drinks, gifts and LOTS of candy. From early morning till in the evening. It was wonderfull too see the happy and glowing faces of the kids and here them laugh so laud.

For my tast it as almost a bit too much of the good. I would rather have people coming in to see the kids more regularly, instead just once a year all at once, but the kids had fun, and that's all that matters.

There was also a dressing up contest among the resident doctors of the whole hospital and our resident won. She was dressed up as little red riding hood and Nelly was her wulf. They really looked cute.

our resident doctor and Nelly! Aren't they cute?

little Jorge in his suit for kindergarden

Happy Easter!!!

I just wanted to wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. I can't believe it's already Easter again, it seems like we just had Christmas!
Have a great day!

Soccer, shopping and a visit from a good friend!

I got up at 5.30 a.m. today. But that was, because I had to take Cornelia to the airport. She left today.
We had a few really nice days together and I really enjoyed her company. We didn't have a hard core sightseeing program, but just enjoyed spending time together. On Sunday we went to a soccergame of Wilsterman (one of the local Cochabamba teams) against Oriente Petroleros (a team from Santa Cruz) with Liz and her hostfamily. Hernán was there too, even though he is a Bolivar fan (a team from La Paz). Cornelia and I really got dressed up in a fan outfit with hats, scarfs, a flag and a little plastic trompet. The quality of the game wasn't all that great and the result ended up beeing 1:1, but the atmosphere was still great and it was an experience.
After the game we went to my favourite restaurant here and I finally made Hernán try the delicious Sushi. He never was too excited too try it, as he always said he doesn't like it, even though he had never tried it. But he ended up really liking it.

Cornelia and me before the game

Hernán and me at the soccer game

in the stadium

Liz at the soccergame

On Monday we ran around all morning to try to get a airplane ticket for Cornelia from Cochabamba to Buenos Aires. After a few hours we managed to finally get one. And in the afternoon we went to the market where she also did quite a bit of souvernirshopping.

Yesterday we went to the Christo and then in the afternoon Cornelia got a hairextension. She felt really bad at first, because one of the hairdressers had to cut off her hair (you can't really notice anything though, because she got so much hair anyway) so Cornelia could get a hairextension. But she did talk to her and it was really okay for her. She earned some good money to buy herself a bed and like I said: You can't even notice she cut her hair, as she has so much.

me at the Christo

Cornelia with her "hairdonor