We had a change in plans. We thought we were going to the city of Sucre first, but something got mixed up and we ended up spending the day in Cochabama. When we got to Cochabamba it was cold. Not cold enough to wear a winter jacket, but at least I could wear a scarf and pants. It was a refreshing change from the always-so-hot Santa Cruz.
The best part of Cochabamba was climbing El Christo, a giant 10 story building tall statue of Christ. El Christo was on a huge mountain overlooking the city, as there are in many large South American cities, you might be familiar with the most famous one in Rio De Jenero. on the way up, we took a ski lift type thing, then walked around, some of us who were not boiling hot went inside and climbed to the top, well, at least tohis arms. The view was beautiful, like nothing I've ever seen before and El Christo himself was unbelievable! We could see out through tiny holes inside.
Walking down was the hard part, since we were lazy on the way up Sandram our chaperone, made us all walk down, except Shyah from New York, she was not feeling well at all. Everyone was complaining and all of our legs were having muscle spasms, but it was a good time. We even drank water out of plastic bags, but that eventually turned into a water fight in the hot weather.I was surprised by the weather, one minute we were freezing, then we here really hot climbing a mountain. When we all finally got to the airport we were exhausted. We sat wherever we could find space. Then we ate Hamburgers at the airport, then went throught security, then we were told we had an hour, if this wasn't bad enough the soon informed us there would be a delay for an hour. Atfirst everyone was mad and cranky, I feel bad for Sandra, but then somepeople were content using the airports computers, and then we all started playing team building games that we have all learned in camps, girl scouts and other type things. We played the human knot, ninja, and the best/most painful of all, Red Rover. If your not \familiar with Red Rover, you need two teams, everyone holds hands in a line facing the other team at a distance and you choose one person and they run towards you and try to break through your hands. We played a very intense game of this at 11:30 in the airport, needless to say most of us slept well that night. After arriving in La Paz it was even colder than Cochambama, we all had a second wind of energy and everyone dance on the bus to loud music When we got to our hotel everyone was too tired to talk, we just found our rooms and fell asleep.
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