And the seasons change...

I can imagine what May looks like there now - daffodils, azaleas, tigerlilies, roses; the light, delicate green of early buds giving way to the deep green of a robust summer.

A couple of weeks ago the deep green hills that surround the Cochabamba valley began to brown, and the trees started to drop their leaves. This week it's gotten colder; I leave my house in the morning with a jacket or a warm fleece. And the seasons change...

I miss you all, and would love to hear from you (send me photos)! My brother Craig is coming to visit, arriving tomorrow, which I'm very excited about. We have a busy month planned, and I promise to put up more images after he leaves. For now, here's my installment on the last few months.

The most exciting news is that I am now officially a published author, in translation. Our book "Desafiando la globalizacion: historias de la experiencia boliviana" came out in April. Again, I wrote one of the chapters - on Bolivian emigration - and the English version will be out in the UK in September and in the US next January. If you can read Spanish, it's up on the web for free at: www.democracyctr.org/libro . Unfortunately, our US publisher is not as open to letting us publish the book for free on the internet as our Bolivian publisher is, but I'll let everyone know when it comes out.





My housemate Alex
made headlines
in February
when he publicly
called out a
US Embassy official
for asking him
(a Fulbright scholar)
to spy on Venezuelans
and Cubans in Bolivia.







At a staff retreat in March...


Leny, Aldo, and Elliot















a photo from
Ismael (co-director
of my 2003 study
abroad program)'s
birthday - March 8,
dia internacional
de la mujer -
an event as unique
and wonderful
as he is.






From late March to April... vibrant summer to fall. I took these pictures when hiking to "the Cristo," the 33-meter-tall statue of Jesus Christ that stands on a tall hill overlooking Cochabamba.





late March













late April









Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, was in Bolivia last week. We presented the Spanish version of our book in a joint book launch with her in La Paz. Here I am with this amazing author and Ana Maria from Fundacion Solon, who helped us coordinate the event.















From La Paz, I went to chilly Potosi for the weekend to visit Andres, who has a month-long translating/interpreting gig there with a Japanese company. Here we found a bit of sun in the afternoon...















Speaking English Guides in Potosi. I love it.