Just 5 more days in Bolivia. 5! In a week's time I'll be in Lima! Time goes by so quick and a big part of me can't really imagine leaving this place. La Paz feels so much like home now. I feel so familiar and safe in Sopocachi and the surrounds. Whilst when I first arrived in this city I felt unsafe walking around, now I feel like I can walk around the whole city. La Paz is a much better city to live in like this than visit as a tourist. I'll miss how cheap it is. I'll miss the funny people. I'll miss the warm, high pressure shower. I'll miss the choripan van. I'll miss chips ahoy cookies. But above all, i'll miss the views.

Had another Spanish lesson today. Went well, although my exam writing about the Russian Revolution could have gone better. I seem to know a lot more Spanish when I'm given time to think than when I'm put on the spot. Funny that.

I then cooked up the remnants of last night's brilliant pizza for lunch and headed off for the Ethnography Museum, in the city centre near Plaza Murillo. I was hoping I'd find stuff to help with my Fiesta de Moxos article. I was wrong. There were lots of interesting masks and ceramics, the museum is very good, but there was a much greater focus on Andean history.

It was still a very interesting walk down the Prado, La Paz's main central artery. It was warm, and I was jealous of all the locals buying ice cream. La Paz is an impressive city even from the ground, an avenue of skyscrapers climbing towards the clouds. Meanwhile, Plaza Murillo I'm sure must have the world's highest pigeon population!

This evening I went to a nearby cafe on Plaza Avaroa to work on my 2nd draft of the Fiesta de Moxos article. It's difficult as there's very little information on the web, and in hindsight I feel I'd have been better off writing about something political over something anthropological. Still, I feel my 2nd draft was a lot better than the first. I've decided to go more with explaining how the festival is rather paradoxical - being so celebratory of the imposition of catholicism and loss of local culture. Hopefully it will go down well, we've got a matter of days to work it all out.

Vamos!