My flight is one week from today. I will leave from Ottawa around noon on January 8th, and arrive in La Paz at 6:30am on January 9th. It will be a long trip and I think I will be fairly exhausted by the time I get there!

This week will be busy with preparations and last minute purchases of things that I will need to bring with me. I don't have a lot of things left to do, but there are a number of small errands that I need to run, like going to the OHIP office to extend my coverage while I am out of the country. The big-ticket items have all been taken care of - I have my Visa, my airplane ticket and my vaccinations are all up-to-date. Aside from that I will be continuing to learn Spanish, which is the language spoken in Bolivia. There isn't much time left for learning a language, but the more time I can spend on it the better. Hopefully I won't be too lost when I get there.