Work and Meals

  

  One thing I have learned here is time is just a number.  My job is 9-4 in theory.  I have learned not to show up before 9am, but if I there at 10am then I will not miss anything.  Lunch is at different times everyday even though it is supposed to be between 12:30 and 1:30.  I now leave at 4pm if all the work is done.  I don't hang out to watch the kids eat a snack before they go home.  I did do that for about six months, but I would sit there sometimes an hour with nothing to do but watch them play futball. 
     I find it funny how place post hours on their doors and you show up half a hour after they were supposed to open and they still have not.  They also will leave for lunch.  That means places will close for two to three hours.  I don't think the schools provide lunches because kids go home.  Now this is supposed to only apply to social related things and not work, doctor appointments, or other things like that.
     School is so different in Bolivia.  They only go for four to five hours a day, so there is a morning group, afternoon group, and at some schools night classes.  The culture here is very family orientated and meals are very much related to that.  They eat very little for breakfast, so I usually eat two breakfast.  Their main meal is lunch and it is usually large.  A lot of Bolivians don't eat dinner, but if they do it is snack size.  Their portions are very interesting too:  three carbs, proper portion of meat, maybe vegetables, and hardly any fruit.  They mostly eat fruit as a snack or dessert.

She took hold of him and kissed him
    and with a brazen face she said:

¹⁴ “Today I fulfilled my vows,
    and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.
¹⁵ So I came out to meet you;
    I looked for you and have found you!

Proverbs 7:13-15