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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To get from San Pedro de Aatacama to Sucre, I took a 3-day trip over Salar de Uyuni, end up in the small town of Uyuni. The trip was really amazing, and Salar de Uyuni is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. We went with a bus from San Pedro to the Bolivian border, which is just a little house in the middle of nowhere. From the Bolivian border, the trip started with 4WD Toyota Land Cruisers – a car I really got a great respect from on the trip. In my car there were 3 Brazilians, a man from France, and guy from Spain, our local driver Juan and me. The car had a stereo where you could connect your IPod, so most of the trip we were listening to soft rock like Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Pepper and a lot of other music in that genre. It was really great, and gave the trip a special feeling.
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