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Back in La Paz II

I have bought myself new clothes and some red nail varnish, plucked much neglected eyebrows and feel almost normal again! Stumbled on the Coca Museum yesterday (whilst doing a bit more shopping) and wandered around to be educated...things like cocaine being used to anaesthetise patients, thus stopping the doctors from bashing patients over the head & suchlike barbarianism. Good displays of legal adverts for cocaine & even a section on how to chew the coca leaf correctly. The Spanish banned the coca leaf but reinstated its use when they discovered that it raised the output of the indigenous people that they were using as slaves at the time! With a tax, surprise surprise. Went to the ballet last night.....was ballet school production but pretty good, some of the younger ones had that petrified expression on their faces that I had throughout my whole dancing school/stage career! Second half was Bolivian National Folk dancing...bit sexier than the Manx traditional dances!

posted by Katie @ 2/29/2004 12:05:00 pm