Boliva Update

Hello, Hola, Sup, (insert any other greeting you like here)!!
I´m sitting in an internet cafe, and trying to focus on writing instead of just saying it out loud. Anyways, it's been a week since my last blog, and i'm so sorry! This keyboard is pretty different than the ones that i am used to, so please excuse any typos!
Yesterday we returned from Uncallamaya, a village about two hours by car aways from Rurrenabaque (where I am currently staying with the rest of the team). Very poor, cold, and not too clean, these people were opposite of their conditions. Although they were shy at first, we made a few friends, and started a game of volleybal, but we all stood in a circle. The girls and I soon realized how very loud we were, but we hammed it up. We matched my horrible volleyball skills with goofyness and soon had the whole village laughing. It was my first time ever playing volleyball, and let me just say it was SO FUN!!
The next morning, we set off throughout the village checking water filters. Surprisingly, out of the houses we were suppossed to visit, we only saw three filters. Two houses were across a flash river, so we couldn't reach them. The first house we visited didn't have a filter in site, and second one had two non-working ones. The houses had upen cracks in them, and the palapas were rotting away. It was heartbreaking, and the water was filthy, as they had not used them.
*The majority of the village was at the clinic w set up in the school house, so we couldn't talk to anyone about how to work them, except for one man who's filter was died from iron in the water, and had two cockaroaches living in there.*
Again, the heartbreaking sight of how poor these homes were was, well... shocking. We returned to the school, which is the center of their community, and ate lunch. We played one more game of voleyball, and said a sad goodbye to Uncallamaya.
This has been an amazing experience, and I can't wait for more. I'll try to write more later.
Much love,
Heather