A little alone time

I want to start out by apologizing. I friend of mine brought to my attention that there has been a large number of grammatical and spelling mistakes in my blog, I am sorry about that but you need to understand my dependence on spell check and the fact that my gramar is bad. I hope that you all can get past it and enjoy the content.
So after only a couple of weeks Umeir the photographer I was traveling with had to head back to the states so my time with the Democracy Center was over, but it was an amazing experience. I realized I had about 10 days before I was meeting up with a friend in Peru so I decided to head down south to the towns of Potosi and Sucre. I have never traveled alone before so this was a good experience for me. I took an overnight bus to Potosi, which the locals claim to be the highest city in the world at 4,070 m (a lot of feet). This town is famous for its mines.Hundreds of years ago it was one of the most important cities in the world, comparable to NYC and Paris. This is strange to think about because now it is simply a city of a little over 100,000 people. The first day there I just relaxed and met some amazing people from Germany and Israel. I am glad that I met some people because most of you know that I am not an alone kind of person, I like people and talking a lot. The second day I took a tour of an active mine. This was really important to me because mining is one of the most important elements of Bolivia culture and history. In this town alone there are 15,000 miners and thousands of others who work in processing plans and tourism whose job is directly related to the mines. This could lead to serious problems because experts claim that the mine has about 5-10 more years before it becomes unsafe (or even more unsafe, because lord knows it is not that safe right now.)The tour was enlightening and uncomfortable. We actually went through the mines and crawled through tiny tunnels in the horrible heat and filled our lungs with dust and chemicals. The job that these men do is unbelievable. I had trouble breathing just being in and walking through the mines let alone doing the hard labor that they do all day everyday. Overall it was a great experience and I got to hold active explosives and watch them explode, pretty cool.
From there I headed to the colonial town of Sucre. This was a cool experience because this town is totally different from most of the others. It was nice, white and clean and people drove SUVs. It was also interesting because this is where the other half of the capital sits. The first week I was here I went to the protest about the Sede no se Mueve (the people of the La Paz want to keep the capital). This town was covered in signs saying La Sede Si se Mueve. There was also a hunger strike to move the capital. Overall it was really interesting to see the other side of the debate. Although interesting I was not sad to leave Sucre back to the land of La Paz. I am going to be here for a couple of days and then I head to Peru to find a certain tall read head named Maggie and we are heading down to Chile, I am overly excited about it. Although it makes me sad that my time traveling is coming to a close I am really excited about the work that I am going to be doing in Paraguay in just 2 and half short weeks. I hope that everyones summer is finishing up nicely and you are all in my thoughts.