A World without walls
everyday life while homeschooling overseas
Las Alasitas is apparently an Aymara word (I think) that means 'Buy it'! This is such an interesting tradition here: There are markets ALL over the city that sell miniature things: houses, restaurants, money, animals, cars, babies, groceries, etc. You buy a miniature thing, then you have it blessed by either the 'witch' or a priest, and then you'll get the thing that you bought in miniature in real life during that year! Well, we didn't buy anything. We went to the downtown Alasitas market at about 11:30am, which was actually a really bad idea! Turns out that in order to have the BEST luck to get what it is that you want, you have to buy it and have it blessed at exactly noon! So the crowds were thickening...and the sun was shining and beating down on us...and you put crowds and heat together and you get a really unhappy Peter (and therefore an unhappy mom)! Doh! So we didn't spend long at the market, and didn't get any miniature things hoping for big things... Instead, we fought our way back to our transporation and floated over the top of the crowds on the teleferico. MUCH more fun to take pictures of it from above! It was SO packed with people! Wow! We went back to the embassy and had lunch together. It was our first day without Josh, Claire and Andrew, as they had left the night before on a trip with the youth of our church group to Cochabamba for 3 days! So fun! So Peter and I had fun, too. :) At lunch, the staff was handing out 'Alasitas' money--miniature cash! Peter pondered what he would do with all of that if it were real money. Ha! :) After our trip to visit the miniature city, we went over to play with friends and enjoy the afternoon. It was a nice day.
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As a Stay At Home Mom of 4 wonderful children, I have the amazing opportunity not only to home school them, but to do so in many different places! I am married to the most amazingly wonderful (and handsome) man in the whole world! Together, we seek out, every day, that Joy in the Journey that makes life exciting! Archives
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