The Fishers in La Paz, Bolivia

We had a great, if rather unorthodox, week of Thanksgiving festivities. It started last Saturday when the American (and Kiwi) staff from Highlands gathered at Amy and Christian’s home for a wonderful meal and time together.

Even though Bolivians don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, we decided to make it a special week at school. For Spirit Week, each day was a special dress-up day. Make sure you look at the photos below of how Tom and I dressed up as book characters! Thanksgiving ended up being pajama day, so it worked well since we all felt lazy and full after a meal of fried turkey and lots of casseroles. You can’t buy pumpkin here, so I brought some canned pumpkin back with me from the States. My pumpkin crisp was a big hit with the Bolivian staff.

Yesterday was our first Team Day of the year. On Team Day, our whole school is divided up into four groups, and the Kindergarten class through Seniors compete together at crazy games. This time it was an egg theme, which was messy and lots of fun. The game at my station involved dropping eggs from a balcony into buckets on the ground.

We had a lot to be thankful for this week, but most of all, we were grateful that we picked up our visas at 5:00 Wednesday evening. We are now legal residents of Bolivia for the year, and we have our passports so that we can leave the country at Christmas. And we hopefully never have to set foot in the Bolivian immigration building again – yahoo!