Bolivia
Awareness trip to see Jackeline
Trip Info
- I sponsored a child, Jackeline, in Bolivia, from beginning of 2013 through the summer of 2019 (Jackeline went abroad for college and the sponsorship ended)
- Unbound, the organization I was sponsoring through has an awareness trip where you can visit your sponsor child with a group of other sponsors
- I decided to go on the trip only after a year or so of sponsoring Jackeline
- Went to three cities in Bolivia – Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and La Paz, and visited different communities and mingled with the locals.
- I got to meet Jackeline and her mother in La Paz 🙂
Trip Video
This was actually the first trip video I made, so filming and editing skills were even worse back then. Nonetheless, watching this video puts a smile on my face.
Random Happenings
- We visited an orphanage in Cochabamba, and when the children found out that I was Korean, they were all around me asking me to sing some OSTs from the K-dramas they were watching. I remember turning on data roaming to look up lyrics and singing Paradise from Boys Over Flowers and a couple other songs.
- Elevation: Santa Cruz – 1,365 feet; Cochabamba – 8,432 feet; La Paz – 11,942 feet
- I was okay in Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, but in La Paz, because of the high elevation, I had a really bad headache. We actually had a doctor on site for the last two cities because of the elevation, and I was injected with oxygen in my hotel room. I actually felt much better after that.
- There were a few interpreters in our group of 14 or so people, but when they weren’t around, I used the little Spanish I knew, the small dictionary I brought with me and body language to try communicating with Jackeline.
