After being recommended Proyecto Horizonte by a
family friend who volunteered for the organisation a couple of years ago and
loved it, I decided that I was going to complete the next four months of my
year abroad volunteering for the project. I started off staying in a homestay with a wonderful host mum, however I
had planned to stay in a flat with other volunteers but unfortunately the flats
owned by the project were not ready to move into straight away. Luckily there was a girl from Alaska staying
in the same house who was also in the same situation so we decided to go
searching in the city for a flat to rent out together. After just two days of looking we moved in,
it was really easy to find somewhere.
Having traveled for almost 30 hours from
London to Cochabamba at the beginning of March 2015, I headed straight into the
project the next day. On my first day I
was shown around the whole place and was amazed to see for myself all the
different ways in which they help the community, having read about it
online. I started working in the medical
center for my first month and now work with the children aged 3-4 at the
nursery in Inicial 2. All of the
children are so sweet and I love being greeted in the morning by the kids
coming up and hugging me saying, ‘Hola profe Mica’ it really is the sweetest
and the best way to start the day.
It is not all work and no play, I have been
fortunate enough to visit the beach city of Iquique in Chile for five days, the
beautiful city Sucre (another city in Bolivia) and Villa Tunari, which I can
best describe as a tropical jungle. I am
also planning to take a trip to the Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) and hopefully
La Paz and many other places. I have now
finished my third month here and cannot believe just how quickly the time has
gone, with just one month left I know how quickly it will fly by and I am not
ready to leave. I have really enjoyed my
time here, everyone who works at Proyecto Horizonte are so lovely and
welcoming, I definitely want to come back. Cochabamba is one of my favourite places I have visited, there is so
much culture and diversity here that I will never get bored of this amazing
city.
- Michaela, UK
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