Christian Jessen » 2009 » February
Carnival in Oruro, la Diablada
Carnival show in Oruro
This weekend was the big carnival in Oruro, la Diablada, one of the biggest carnivals in the world. We left Sucre Thursday night, and got to the apartment we were staying in at Friday morning. Since it was impossible to book a hostel (we tried several times, but each time they cancelled our booking), we found a guy who rented a floor in a big house with no furniture. We had to sleep on the floor, but at carnival it doesn’t really matter, as you don’t expect to get much sleep anyway. It was only 50 boliviano per night, compared to hotels charging between 60 and 100 dollars per night, with minimum 3 nights.
Learning Spanish in Sucre, Bolivia
I’m not really doing that much here in Sucre, besides learning Spanish at Academia Latinoamericana de Español. It feels like I’ve learned a lot in a week, but there is still very much to learn. It’s very hard to speak Spanish, and explain things, because of my very little vocabulary. I’m learning so many new words every day, but it is so hard to remember them all, and to construct sentences when you don’t remember half of the words. I can understand a lot more Spanish than, but it’s still difficult when they speak so fast.
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