I love AGMs. They are just so much fun. Especially when they last 18 hours on the first day and you have to come back the second day to hear the same thing again. This weekend ANED, the organization I'm down here working with had their annual general meeting. It was 2 days of banging heads together to come up with strategies followed by trying to stay awake the next day.

As is usual with things like this the schedule can be thrown out the window because its going to run over time. So when all the managers of the different regional offices and the national office gathered in the hotel on Friday morning we knew we were in for a long day. Bolivians love to eat so there were several breaks for mid morning snacks (saltenas) followed by lunch (3 course meal), and then an afternoon snack (sandwiches) and of course dinner. To help wash it down there was lots of coffee and tea. If anyone couldn't last there was candy as well.

The next day we all waddled back to the hotel, sleepy eyed, to meet up with the rest of the employees of ANED to go through what had been hashed out the previous day. With one more day until the start of winter down here and no heating in the buildings we huddled together, bundled up to listen to the strategic plan.

It was a chance to get to know people from the different parts of ANED as well as catch up with old friends.