Bolivia, our new home!!

Hola!
We made it to Santa Cruz after a long overnight flight and much sleep deprivation yesterday morning. We were immediately split into our five families with 2 girls in each family and taken home for some rest and food. Yesterday evening, we gathered together again for orientation and supper (which we would all agree that Bolivia food is fantastic!! lots of meat, rice and fresh fruit....give us a couple of days and we´ll tell you what our intestinal think about it). When we returned home for the evening everyone has reported that the evening activities consisted of anything from sleeping for 12 plus hours to watching tv in english or spanish to entertaining host children to stumbling through spanish conversations.
Today, we really had a great day. We spent the morning at the MCC center and then we ate at a Chinese restaurant. That´s right, Chinese in Bolivia, but Daniel, our host for the day, couldn´t be detered from wanting a Chinese meal. He insisted that we could get Bolivian food every other day here. It was delicious and way too much none the less. And because this is a group of 10 girls and bathrooms essential, we then ended up buying a couple of coffees at a cafe simply to access bathrooms. The afternoon was spent at the Stansberry orphanage where we satisfied Leah´s craving to hold a baby. She was pretty much in heaven for the next couple of hours.
Tomorrow we will begin building out muscles with some quality labor. Our work will be at the Samuelito daycare center where we will continue building a larger facility to house the daycare. We have heard so much about it today and how famous the youth venture group from last year is for starting this project, so we are excited to continue the building project.
As we compile more stories of the journey I´ll will post them as they come, but I can assure you that we are all having a great time at our varying levels of understanding what is actually happening and being said around us!