A World without walls
everyday life while homeschooling overseas
A few more interesting pictures of the protests and things leading up to our eventual evacuation. I love the poster in the picture to the left. The yellow sign says, "We apologize for the inconvenience; we're repairing our country. Thank you!" So great! This also shows the things we saw on our walks home from church...the messages telling us to stay home and be careful...and even where all the major road blocks and protests were happening! (That would be all the places marked in red on the screen shots.) It was certainly an interesting time!
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What a lovely Sunday! And also a turning point in our stay in Bolivia. Our bishop was celebrating his birthday, and his wife is my good friend, so she invited us over to celebrate! So much fun! All of my bestest buddies together to laugh and eat! We enjoyed chatting together and just being together. While we were in the middle of our celebration, Luchy (the bishop's wife) yells out, "The President is stepping down!! It's on TV!!" We all ran into their TV room and watched live as the president Evo Morales read a statement that he was stepping down as president! What an incredible moment! Everyone was cheering and crying. Most of our friends ran out to jump and yell and celebrate with everyone in the streets. Out in the streets all the cars were honking non-stop and people were shooting off fireworks! It was crazy!! We spent a few more minutes with our friends, then Luchy drove us home. This is when everything went crazy. Luchy barely made it home--as angry mobs started to roam the streets, attacking the celebrating people and throwing rocks at cars. Our friends who ran out to celebrate ended up sheltering in Luchy's house! These angry mobs roamed the streets all night and terrorized people. They vandalized cars, broke into stores and stole things, dragged people into the streets, and burned city busses! We were told to turn off all of our lights and stay far away from our windows. Claire and I sat at my window (on the third story of our house) where we had a view of the main road. We watched angry mobs roam the streets and shoot fireworks into people's houses. We watched as another group confronted the angry mob to stop them from entering the major grocery store across the street. We were terrified that they would come down our street. The police were overwhelmed, so we knew there would be no response. It was so frightening! This happened for 3 nights in a row. The local neighborhoods set up MAJOR road blocks (not just ropes with a few stones this time--we're talking the French Resistance from Les Miserables), called themselves "The Neighbors" ('Los Vecinos'), and rotated with each other in order to stay up all night to protect the women and children and their homes!! It was incredible. But Monday night, we got the news: Ordered Departure. We were forced to leave our home and my hubby...we sort of thought it might be coming, so we decorated for Christmas and had Christmas morning the day before we left... Definitely the most memorable Christmas yet. Sadly, our big Halloween party was canceled due to all the road blocks and protests. Eventually, they decided to have a low-key party where everyone could dress up. The kids were happy, because they worked so hard on their costumes this year! We also held a Halloween party at our house for us and our neighbors (since we weren't technically supposed to leave our houses). The kids all had so much fun! They decorated and planned a haunted house, passed out candy, and we played games. Not so bad. There is a young lady in our ward who is leaving for a mission. Her dad is a musical guy and asked if I would perform a musical number with him on my clarinet for her farewell. Of course I said yes!! :) However, the cork on the top half of my clarinet body has been threatening to fall off for years. Sri Lanka did a number on my poor baby!! Luckily, since I knew it was coming, I was prepared and had purchased a kit for cork replacement. So when it finally fell off, while I was a bit freaked out, I figured I could make it right again. It took FOREVER, but I was finally able to make it look beautiful again! If this ever happens again, though, I hope I'm near an instrument repair shop so someone a little more professional than me can fix it. (Sadly, I never got to play the musical number. We got evacuated instead.) |
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