On Service to the Baha'i Cause: Joey in Bolivia

Colors and textures

Joey in Bolivia
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Exquisite are his photos. His new blog is wonderfully chatty and detailed, giving the reader a sense of really being there with him. And who wouldn't want to, given the opportunities for service to the Cause there!

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...this week was the anniversary week of the school where I am, jam packed with parent workshops and special presentations by students and organized by the teachers. It is interesting the way that the school attempts to engage the parents of the students both to share with them what they feel to be important pieces of advice to promote higher levels of learning among the children, and in order to learn what the parents have as suggestions too. I suppose it would work more or less like any PTA in the US, but because of the circumstances that people are living in here and because of the special interest the culture takes into the discussions, it seems a bit more interesting than a regular PTA meeting. To me at least.

... By the end of that day, when the performances in the courtyard turned into class soccer matches, I headed off to the nearby town that is about a 20 min car ride away (1 hour or so walk but the road is not so good). The Bahá'í in the community that I am living asked me to visit that town to assist them with the election of the Local Spiritual Assembly.

Joey, "Fun with Illnesses," Puka Llaqta

{Re-posted with permission}