Being the tourist
I have found that here in Bolivia it is not "all work and no play". In fact I am wondering if it is the opposite "all play and no work". My job description consists of playing basketball with the local shoe shiner guys, teaching them english, showing short term mission teams around the area(and pretending that I know everything that there is to know about La Paz) and going and doing the tourist thing with them at the end of their stay. This last week we went to an ancient Incan ruin called Tiawanacu. It was very interesting to me to see the increadible engineering that was behind all of it. These people were amazingly advanced. One theory, and the most credible in my book is that aliens helped them, and that is the only way I can explain to myself how some of this stuff was built.

The next stop was lake Titicaca, the highest navigatable lake in the world, or so they say. It was beautiful. The Cordillera mountain range seemed to shoot right out of the water. Once again I was reminded of how huge God is and how small I am (The mountains just seem to have this effect on me).
So when I say, "the tourist thing" you probably think it might be a little costly. Well let me put Bolivia's idea of pricey tourism into perspective for you. I stayed in a hotel, payed for a breakfast, lunch and dinner, took a ferrie out to Isla del Sol(where some believe to be the Garden of Eden) where we were given a guided tour of some of the Incan ruins and took a "luxury" bus ride home for about $15. How sweet is that!
So for all of you that are worried that I am having a rough time down here in Bolivia, don't worry, it will be tough, but I will make it through.