At home in San Borja

We've blogged a little about San Borja before. San Borja is the small town where we will spend most of our time when we aren't in the Tsimane villages. We are renting a room in one of the houses that is inside the complex that houses the NGO Asher works with (CBIDSI - Centro Boliviano de Investigacion y Desarrollo Socio Integral). 

Here is our room. It's perfect for us - we can also store things here when we go to the villages. We have some great windows that let the breeze in. We also have a nice bed. The net keeps mosquitos away from Asher and spiders away from Kelly.

We have a great table to work on. This is where Asher has been hard at work getting his data collection plan in place, and Kelly has been working on some papers. This is a great place to get work done! We even get wifi on good days (and we love to get emails from family and friends!).

We also have access to a bathroom and kitchen. We've been making scrambled eggs in the morning, which we eat with bread that we buy from the market the night before. This goes great with Nescafe or tea.

We do laundry in the mornings, and our clothes are dry by the time the sun sets around 6:30pm. And, best of all, there is a complex dog (Barbaro) who has really warmed up to us. He comes running when he hears the sound of a plastic bag, knowing there are probably some leftovers inside for him. 

There is also a little kitten who hangs out in the complex yard. We call her Barbarita (little, cute Barbaro), and she also loves our leftovers! We always save a couple of pieces of meat just for her. We miss our cat, Boo, who is living with Kelly's parents this year, so it's been fun to have a kitten nearby.