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Corruption: An AnecdotePosted Tuesday, May 24, at 6:51 PM Although I heard this story fourth-hand (from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who witnessed it) I have little doubt as to its being true. Corruption is present to some degree in every government, but, in Bolivia, bribery is the unofficial official way of doing business...
I am a recent college graduate employed in a bookstore who doesn't have a television, or, more importantly, internet fast enough to watch TV shows. As a result, I have been engaging in an activity that, for the past 4 years, I would have considered not only outrageous, but downright ludicrous...
The curvy road from Copacabana to La Paz at times hugs sapphire and sparkling Lake Titcaca and at others passes through miles of sparsely populated altiplano (high plateau). Here are some of the things I saw on a bus ride there last week: -The twitching legs of a dying donkey sticking out of a ditch...
Ode to an Electric Shower Woke up to shower No power No power Will I ever shower? Electric showers are the worst. If I could talk to my electric shower it would be with the same hatred and disgust with which Michael Scott talks to Toby Flenderson:...
Oh, hello there. My name is Allyson. I was born and raised in Cape Girardeau, and, right now, at this very moment, I am in Bolivia. That's right, Bolivia. No, it's not a new dietary supplement made from cow intestines (Now with more bovine!), or even a place in Africa, as a certain grandmother may or may not have thought (love you, Grandma). ...
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Allyson is a 22-year-old graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., with a major in English and concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. She is native Cape Girardean and graduate of Cape Central High School. She has spent the last 4 months working at The Spitting Llama Bookstore & Outfitter in Copacabana, Bolivia and teaching English there to local sixth graders.
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