i just love all of the kisses from the kids...when you get to school a lot of the kids give you a kiss on the cheek and when you leave the will run after you to give you a kiss on the cheek.. it is such a sweet thing! i can't even begin to imagine my ex students running after me to give me a kiss on the cheek! not only that.. it would kinda seem creepy!well not just kinda. but a lot creepy!
this past friday night we went out to this really swanky club called Ama.. Ama happens to be in the same shopping center as starbucks.. mmm..one of my housemates is dating a guy whose uncle owns it...so i piut on one of my favorite blue maxi dresses and heels and was ready to hit the town... when we got there everyone was wearing a variation of BLACK...so here comes this white blond girl marching in with a long bright blue dress... kinda stuck out like a sore thumb!! it was fun though... it is probably one of the most expensive clubs in Trujillo... yes.. i know people!!! LOL
lWe had to work all day on Saturday (yesterday) so needless to say i was exhausted... all i wanted to do last night was lay on the couch and watch a movie.. i am starting to get sick so going out two nights in a row was not in the cards for me! with that said... there are so many damn people in this house that there is no way to go to sleep early on a saturday night until they leave the house... in the true latin way.. no one goes pout on the town until at least midnight.. so that also meant i was not going to be getting any sleep until after midnight.. the downside of living with so many people.. NO PEACE and QUIET when you want it! yes, i am the old lady of the house!!
there is actually a guy moving in from the states who is older than me.. good! don't like being the oldest! HHA..
oh this is funny.. you know how we don't ever take a taxi to el porvenir without less than six people? well, yesterday we were in a taxi heading home from work when the cabbie pulled over and told the two girls riding in the back of the station wagon to get out... apparently it is illegal to have pople in the far back and there were cops ahead of us checking taxis... so the poor girls had to get out and walk in a not so safe, clean part of el porvenir.. we are all there OMG.. where are they going to have to walk to? so they get out.. we drive past the cops and literally stop 100 meters in front of the police.. we wait and the girls walk up to the car and get right back into the back of the car.. i didn't understand because of course the cops could see us.... they had to walk down a road next to the cemetery where there is so much trash it could fill a landfill (slight sarcasm..only slight).. when they got in the car they were like.. oh we were just counting the number of dead animals on the side of the road! soooo GROSS.... sad.. how parts of trujillo can be so nice and then there is el porvenir where people are too afraid to actually go in and clean the area up...i know what you are thinking right now.. if people from trujillo re afraid t o go into el porvenir then why do i feel safe? the answer to that is.. i don't know! we exert a lot of caution.. never carry money and no one at the SKIP location has a computer there... the ladrons (robbers) know that there is nothing of use for them there or from us.. we have NO money on us except for the money to get to and from the school..
it also makes me wonder if people are so afraid to enter into el porvenir to provide services and maintenance then what happens to the kids growing up there.. they have no opportunities to better themselves.. hopefully what we do at SKIP is provide them with a sense of optimism and ambition that they might not have had otherwise.. i hope.........
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Ceviche
so i am at starbucks right now and someone just came up to amy and i asked if they could take pictures of us from their university.. so as i write this blog .. people are taking pictures of me and amy... not exactly sure where these pictures are going... LOL....
ok back to my blog....
CEVICHE!!! its amazing here! in case you don't know what it is ...it is basically fish and shellfish that is cooked in lime juice... in texas at least it looks like fish and pico de gallo mixed together..
in peru... they serve it in a giant dish.. with corn, onions, beans, potatoes, and yuca... all of it is in lime juice.. the interesting part of it all is that they don't give you plates.. everyone eats out of the same dish.. kinda don't mind that either.. then again i have never been bothered by double dippers.. as me myself am one!!
another dish i really enjoy at these ceviches restaurants is called chicharron... in mexico chirraon is fried pork skins.. her it is fried fish.. it is SOOO yummy..
i have gone to a ceviche restaurant every weekend since i got here.. kinda a fun tradition (all four weeks.. LOL).. hopefully i will be able to uphold this tradition!!
ok back to my blog....
CEVICHE!!! its amazing here! in case you don't know what it is ...it is basically fish and shellfish that is cooked in lime juice... in texas at least it looks like fish and pico de gallo mixed together..
in peru... they serve it in a giant dish.. with corn, onions, beans, potatoes, and yuca... all of it is in lime juice.. the interesting part of it all is that they don't give you plates.. everyone eats out of the same dish.. kinda don't mind that either.. then again i have never been bothered by double dippers.. as me myself am one!!
another dish i really enjoy at these ceviches restaurants is called chicharron... in mexico chirraon is fried pork skins.. her it is fried fish.. it is SOOO yummy..
i have gone to a ceviche restaurant every weekend since i got here.. kinda a fun tradition (all four weeks.. LOL).. hopefully i will be able to uphold this tradition!!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The American Invasion
I am now finishing up my third week in Trujillo at SKIP... things are going well.. i have actually laughed more in the last three weeks than i have in a LONG time... taking a year off to volunteer has been really good on my soul...i love working with the kids(obviously) and i love all of my housemates/coworkers... and so far no one has really gotten on my nerves... thats good considering i am with them like 24-7... hopefully soon though i will be able to meet some people outside the house .. and that way i can practice my spanish too! so far i have spoken way more english than spanish..
A girl named Noelia from Argentina just moved into the house and she is determined to make me speak more spanish.. this is great! we are etching the primary group 3 (ages 6-7) together.. its hard because i have the teaching experience and she knows the language ... anyone ever tried teaching a class when you need a translator... ugh... gotta be patient though! the kids for some reason do seem to understand my bad spanish.. its really funny.. i use a mix of sign language and verbs that have not been changed into their correct tense.. YIKES!
in addition to group 3 i am also helping in the nursery, helping teach English at IndoAmericana Public School, and will be helping with sports next week! The nursery is great because i am learning the language at the same time as the kids and the coordinator, sylvia, is AWESOME... she has just the warmest disposition even though we don't speak the same language.. she has asked me to help tutor her son in english.. so we shall see. Another volunteer, Danni, says she is like her peruvian mother! I hope she becomes my peruvian mother too! LOL
Teaching at IndoAmericano requires its own paragraph! It is the public school in El Porvenir and only a few blocks away from SKIP... so my first day there was on Tuesday and WOW.. not even sure where to start! when we walked in there were kids running EVERYWHERE... i mean like hundreds of kids running EVERYWHERE! loud music was being played in the courtyard right in the middle of all of the classes.. and of course of all of the classes have their windows open.. it was sooo loud...on top of that kids walk in and out of class without so much of a word from their teacher.. i mean some even run in 20 minutes late.. it is really hard to discipline them when their own teachers haven't set structure or rules....oh and all of the classes have approximately 35-47 kids.needless to say they are CRAZY!
dogs run in and out of the school and also men come in selling ice cream.. i mean not unusual to see kids eating ice cream and soda at 9:30 in the morning.. so crazy!
the other day at SKIP my friend Amy worked with a girl in the biblioteca (library) for two hours and at the end of class she totally pulls out a baby bird out of her hoodie! OMG! that made me laugh! that poor thing looked like it was two steps away from its own death.. when i walked in the library another girl was holding this poor little raggedy bird and then she jumps on my back.. piggy back style.. so guess where her hands with this awful bird is... right by my mouth!! omg get this thing away from my face!!!!! soo gross!!!!
The American Invasion..... as i sit writing this blog on the couch in the living room... i overheard a conversation between two brits about how americans are loud and are glad they moved out of the house before the "American Invasion"... hahaha.. that makes me laugh! 4 of us americans moved in on the same day... kinda nice having troops with me!
A girl named Noelia from Argentina just moved into the house and she is determined to make me speak more spanish.. this is great! we are etching the primary group 3 (ages 6-7) together.. its hard because i have the teaching experience and she knows the language ... anyone ever tried teaching a class when you need a translator... ugh... gotta be patient though! the kids for some reason do seem to understand my bad spanish.. its really funny.. i use a mix of sign language and verbs that have not been changed into their correct tense.. YIKES!
in addition to group 3 i am also helping in the nursery, helping teach English at IndoAmericana Public School, and will be helping with sports next week! The nursery is great because i am learning the language at the same time as the kids and the coordinator, sylvia, is AWESOME... she has just the warmest disposition even though we don't speak the same language.. she has asked me to help tutor her son in english.. so we shall see. Another volunteer, Danni, says she is like her peruvian mother! I hope she becomes my peruvian mother too! LOL
Teaching at IndoAmericano requires its own paragraph! It is the public school in El Porvenir and only a few blocks away from SKIP... so my first day there was on Tuesday and WOW.. not even sure where to start! when we walked in there were kids running EVERYWHERE... i mean like hundreds of kids running EVERYWHERE! loud music was being played in the courtyard right in the middle of all of the classes.. and of course of all of the classes have their windows open.. it was sooo loud...on top of that kids walk in and out of class without so much of a word from their teacher.. i mean some even run in 20 minutes late.. it is really hard to discipline them when their own teachers haven't set structure or rules....oh and all of the classes have approximately 35-47 kids.needless to say they are CRAZY!
dogs run in and out of the school and also men come in selling ice cream.. i mean not unusual to see kids eating ice cream and soda at 9:30 in the morning.. so crazy!
the other day at SKIP my friend Amy worked with a girl in the biblioteca (library) for two hours and at the end of class she totally pulls out a baby bird out of her hoodie! OMG! that made me laugh! that poor thing looked like it was two steps away from its own death.. when i walked in the library another girl was holding this poor little raggedy bird and then she jumps on my back.. piggy back style.. so guess where her hands with this awful bird is... right by my mouth!! omg get this thing away from my face!!!!! soo gross!!!!
The American Invasion..... as i sit writing this blog on the couch in the living room... i overheard a conversation between two brits about how americans are loud and are glad they moved out of the house before the "American Invasion"... hahaha.. that makes me laugh! 4 of us americans moved in on the same day... kinda nice having troops with me!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Trujillo
i have been told that there are three things i need to know about trujillo!
1. "The Pina Man" - he is a man that sells pineapples a block from the house out of his truck!.. i haven't actually tried it yet but one girl who bought some last week said hers had maggots on them... YUCK!!
2. " Burger Lady" she sets up a stand outside her house at 8 every night... i haven't actually had a burger from her yet.. but she makes the most amazing egg sandwiches too.... YUMMY.. wishing i would have discovered her!
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| Plaza de Armas |
i am adding to the list of must see places!
1."Casona Deza" it is the cutest coffee shop ever! it looks very 1800's inside.. old timey cash register, velvet couches.. they serve pizza there too but i hsvent tried it yet
2. " Chaufa" it is a mix of chinese food and peruvian food... very yummy!!
Ok MORE to come!!
Peruvian Mathematics!
I cannot do peruvian mathematics! ok maybe i can some parts of it.. but man, they do their math in a very different way..its hard to retrain an old mind to think in a different way.. and then try not speaking the native language! its a lot of fun... somehow me and the three 10 yr old girls in the library managed to get the right answers! it gives me hope that i will be able to help these kids regardless of the language barrier... it would however make things easier though!!
yesterday a dentist came to the school to talk about dental health and even gave them fluoride treatments... so picture this.. el porvenir , a town where cops won't go when it gets dark.. a town where there are nasty dogs everywhere , trash, broken glass, dust .. the works... well, we are waiting for the dentist yesterday when all of sudden they open these large gates (which i didn't realize actually opened) into at the school and this massive shiny blaxk fancy SUV pulls up...... seeing this fancy car at SKIP was so weird because fit as just out of place and there was NOO way it was going to park on the street outside the school.. NO WAY... then 7 people wearing all WHITE roll out of the car! the kids were so excited and listened to every word he said! it was awesome and they were so cute!!
So, my schedule i think has solidified.. i will be assisting with grupo 3( the kids are about 6 yrs olds), the nursery, working in the library, nd doing homework club.... i have already learned quite a bit of spanish words.. but it is frustrating when they try to tell you something and you have no clue... they are mostly tattle telling when they want to tell me something.. that translates into every language!!
one thing i have noticed about the culture here is when they ask for something.. like to go to the bathroom or get water.. they say it in the most grating whiny voice you have ever heard.. the other volunteers say the adults here do it to... its almost like they are singing when they ask for something... it is so interesting.. i have heard that when you need a taxi that if you put on that whiny voice you are more apt to get what you want! think i ll give that a try!!
one other thing i have noticed is that when you see the mothers they automatically kiss you on the cheek whether they know you are not... i love it... they are just such warm people... the kids do it to.. too cute!
yesterday a dentist came to the school to talk about dental health and even gave them fluoride treatments... so picture this.. el porvenir , a town where cops won't go when it gets dark.. a town where there are nasty dogs everywhere , trash, broken glass, dust .. the works... well, we are waiting for the dentist yesterday when all of sudden they open these large gates (which i didn't realize actually opened) into at the school and this massive shiny blaxk fancy SUV pulls up...... seeing this fancy car at SKIP was so weird because fit as just out of place and there was NOO way it was going to park on the street outside the school.. NO WAY... then 7 people wearing all WHITE roll out of the car! the kids were so excited and listened to every word he said! it was awesome and they were so cute!!
So, my schedule i think has solidified.. i will be assisting with grupo 3( the kids are about 6 yrs olds), the nursery, working in the library, nd doing homework club.... i have already learned quite a bit of spanish words.. but it is frustrating when they try to tell you something and you have no clue... they are mostly tattle telling when they want to tell me something.. that translates into every language!!
one thing i have noticed about the culture here is when they ask for something.. like to go to the bathroom or get water.. they say it in the most grating whiny voice you have ever heard.. the other volunteers say the adults here do it to... its almost like they are singing when they ask for something... it is so interesting.. i have heard that when you need a taxi that if you put on that whiny voice you are more apt to get what you want! think i ll give that a try!!
one other thing i have noticed is that when you see the mothers they automatically kiss you on the cheek whether they know you are not... i love it... they are just such warm people... the kids do it to.. too cute!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
"Proper" English
Since being here I have learned more "proper" English than spanish. since this is an English organization most of the volunteers seem to be from England... obviously!!! I would like to take this time write out some of the translations!!
"Proper" English = American English
knickers panties
trousers pants
pants underwear
jumper light jacket
chips french fries
crisps chips
Uni college
garage gas station
car park parking lor
jelly jello
marmalade jam
rubber eraser
"Proper" English = American English
knickers panties
trousers pants
pants underwear
jumper light jacket
chips french fries
crisps chips
Uni college
garage gas station
car park parking lor
jelly jello
marmalade jam
rubber eraser
Friday, September 9, 2011
My job
So , i have been here for a week and everyone is trying to figure out where i best fit into this program... at first i was going to be teaching two different grades in reading, math and english... i would LOVE to teach.. but i just can't communicate in Spanish that well... it is really frustrating because i am dying to learn the language..im just not there yet.. so i think it now i will be teaching 3 courses of English, doing a PE class, and probably going to the public school in El Porvenir to help with English classes. i am really excited to see what a public school looks like in Peru. FRom what I hear.. its a bit crazy.. the smallest class size is 35 and if a teacher is absent.. the kids just roam the halls. THey also don't have many resources to use for the kids.. It makes me thankful to have had access to all of the resources i did in Irving. Never know what you got until you don't have it...
the kids are super cute and super wild!!!! because their regular school is so rigid when they get to SKIP they are running around like crazy animals!!!!! yesterday i helped in a class where all of the boys were sneaking around putting on lee press on nails.. bright red!! it was so creepy to see 8 yr olds walking around with red nails!
Today i will be coaching sports.. it is about 10 minutes walking distance from the SKIP school. Nico referred to it as the "giant kitty littler box"....its not quite that bad.. but there is tons of trash aounr it and does seem to smell bad.... oh well gotta deal with what you are given....
the kids are super cute and super wild!!!! because their regular school is so rigid when they get to SKIP they are running around like crazy animals!!!!! yesterday i helped in a class where all of the boys were sneaking around putting on lee press on nails.. bright red!! it was so creepy to see 8 yr olds walking around with red nails!
Today i will be coaching sports.. it is about 10 minutes walking distance from the SKIP school. Nico referred to it as the "giant kitty littler box"....its not quite that bad.. but there is tons of trash aounr it and does seem to smell bad.... oh well gotta deal with what you are given....
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
El Porvenir and SKIP
The village of el porvenir is obviously high in crime as well. Apparently the cops refuse to go there at night and barely go there during the day. A few months ago there were some men with knives waiting for the volunteers to come out to rob them of there money and computers. Because of this incidence we are no longer aloud to carry bags/ mopey/ cameras./ laptops to the school. THey don't want people to think we are carrying anything of value. With this said... it is mostly safe for us there because we are getting in and out of a taxi and into the school which was very tall gates etc..... also, most people don't want t mess with us because we are there to help their people..
inside SKIP you can tell good things are going on! the families are very happy and the kids seem very happy and resilient. its so cute even if you don't know the person walking in they will come and give you a kiss on the cheek. yesterday.. one of the peruvian helpers told us in spanish that she like americans the best!!! too funny especially since this is a british run program!
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| Sisters Esther and Abigail outside of SKIP |
ciao ciao
Starbucks and Mice
Today is Tuesday and i have now been here for 5 days! It kinda feels like a i have been here a while and then again not! Right now i am actually at the one starbucks in trujillo! its funny because my friend Nico and I feel like we have to sneak around when we go to starbucks... all of the other housemates, mostly from europe, all look down on us when we come here ... they think.. ugh americans!! so when people ask us where we are going i feel like i have to lie!! oh well, no shame.. they have free wifi and i had stuff to read for my program... GET OVER IT HOUSEMATES!!! ( nico just said living with all the british people is like living in a harry potter movie... we just laughed so hard in starbucks that everyone was looking at us)
so living in the house is totally like living in a dorm... even at the wise old age of 33 i am enjoying my visit back to my youth hood! so the house is fun but also NASTY! its hard to keep a place clean when there are 20 people going in and out of a house all day. THe kitchen especially.. each person has their own shelf in a cabinet, a shelf on a wire rack, and a shelf in a fridge to put all of their food. so needless to say there is a lot of food in the house... guess what lots of food and dirty people bring in ..... MICE!!!!!! ugh it is zoo gross.. we are finding mouse poo everywhere ... last night while watching a movie we heard rumbling in the kitchen.. i went to check it out and lo and behold the mouse trap caught the mouse and it was totally wiggling trying to get out... it is about 11 pm at this time and i am shrieking so loud that i am sues i woke the whole house up. one guy was sky ping with his mother and we made him immediately come dispose of this thing!!! he was really distraught about leaving the mouse in a bag on the streets.... he felt like he should have stepped on it to put it out of its misery but he didn't have the balls to do so... either way it is out of the house... i am going to buy mouse traps today...
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Getting comfortable
I know the amount of blogs will wane the longer i am here so i will continue to write them when i feel like it.....
last night when i finally decide to leave my room to meet everyone...i am pleasantly happy with how nice all of the volunteers are. they definitely tried to make the four of us newcomers comfortable. Since most people work at SKIP on Saturdays Friday nights are usually pretty calm here...
so of the four of us that came yesterday all of us were teachers last year in the states. two of them, nico and amy, taught in ohio and are quite the duo. they are going to volunteer through december and then travel afterwards.. from what it seems they may kill each other before the end of the week. nico by the way is very funny and makes me augh a lot. amy seems very mature and has her stuff together! th other girl lauren is from NY and taught in DC.
most of the other volunteers come from england and are a little overwhelmed by all the new americans in the house! they think we are taking over.. LOL...
one of the volunteers who has been here for 6 months is leaving tomorrow so we are going out in huanchaco, the beach town, to celebrate. they said they usually stay out until 5 am... this is where my age will come through.. just can't quite hang that long...
this morning we went to "the office" in El Porvenir. Basically we stuffed 6 of us in a small taxi and went to SKIP. we introduced ourselves to the parents of the kids involved in the program. it was interesting because eif you looked around every other woman was knitting while she was listening. I can't wait to buy some of their goods! Apparently SKIP helps them sell it as well ... on-line , at the volunteer house, and in huanchaco where most of the tourists are.
on the way back to the house we actually stuffed 8 people into the cabbie. it is fairly phenomenal how this is done! it did make me giggle though.
ok well, off to take a nap
last night when i finally decide to leave my room to meet everyone...i am pleasantly happy with how nice all of the volunteers are. they definitely tried to make the four of us newcomers comfortable. Since most people work at SKIP on Saturdays Friday nights are usually pretty calm here...
so of the four of us that came yesterday all of us were teachers last year in the states. two of them, nico and amy, taught in ohio and are quite the duo. they are going to volunteer through december and then travel afterwards.. from what it seems they may kill each other before the end of the week. nico by the way is very funny and makes me augh a lot. amy seems very mature and has her stuff together! th other girl lauren is from NY and taught in DC.
most of the other volunteers come from england and are a little overwhelmed by all the new americans in the house! they think we are taking over.. LOL...
one of the volunteers who has been here for 6 months is leaving tomorrow so we are going out in huanchaco, the beach town, to celebrate. they said they usually stay out until 5 am... this is where my age will come through.. just can't quite hang that long...
this morning we went to "the office" in El Porvenir. Basically we stuffed 6 of us in a small taxi and went to SKIP. we introduced ourselves to the parents of the kids involved in the program. it was interesting because eif you looked around every other woman was knitting while she was listening. I can't wait to buy some of their goods! Apparently SKIP helps them sell it as well ... on-line , at the volunteer house, and in huanchaco where most of the tourists are.
on the way back to the house we actually stuffed 8 people into the cabbie. it is fairly phenomenal how this is done! it did make me giggle though.
ok well, off to take a nap
Friday, September 2, 2011
Wait... What???
did i really choose to volunteer in a place that takes me almost 24 hours to get to?? really, i mean i could have chosen freaking guatemala or honduras or costa rica... but then i have never done things the easy way.. NEVER... and i would like to think that God really has a reason for why this place opened their doors to me.. so i guess i need to rest in the fact that this is where i need to be at this very moment....
so my traveling begin in dallas on september 1st... i left for miami at 5:30 pm (sat next to a very handsome guy whom we exchanged contact info!) arrived in miama at 9:30 pm.. picked up the laptop in baggage claim.. checked back in .. left for lima at 11:50 pm .. arrived in lima at 4:15 am... took a cab to the hotel where i was supposed to stay the night before.. long story... slept for a few hours and headed back to the lima airport. the frustrating part began when i tried to check in at Star Peru for my flight to trujillo. Apparently when you buy the ticket online it only charges you a portion of the flight...for all i know they could have charged the whole thing and i would have never noticed. i am bad at looking at my statements.. so they send me to another desk to pay for the rest of the ticket... i go back to the check in desk and they tell me my baggage weighs too much.. they don't speak good english and i don't speak good spanish.. so that added to my frustration... i go back to the other desk and pay for the extra 6 kilos i am carrying...ugh!!!
finally i board my flight to trujillo and arrive in trujillo at approximately 3:00pm. The first thing i noticed as i walked down the steps from the airplane was how dry everything looked. it was flat and dry for miles and at the edge of the horizon re really big dry mountains. The weather is amazing .. bright blue skies...about 65 degrees.. AMAZING! did i also mention it is on the ocean?!?!
So i cab it to the volunteer house and am amazed at how modest it looks on the outside... i guess that is good because when you have a bunch of tourists there is probably a bunch of expensive stuff inside (i.e. computers, cameras, etc)...
THE HOUSE
wow...i think i will be pretty much reliving my college days... it is a wreck.. fairly messy etc... not that i can't hold my own in the messy department but it is weird going from having your own place with nice things in it to a dirty place where pictures are taped on the wall...i am sure i won't think anything of it in a week but right now.. i am like WAIT.... WHAT? did i really choose to revisit my college daysLOL.. i did actually always love the comradery(sp?) of living with a bunch of people. we shall see.. this is all about shaking things up in my life after all right?
i will definitely get some photos up once i get a little more adjusted.
so my traveling begin in dallas on september 1st... i left for miami at 5:30 pm (sat next to a very handsome guy whom we exchanged contact info!) arrived in miama at 9:30 pm.. picked up the laptop in baggage claim.. checked back in .. left for lima at 11:50 pm .. arrived in lima at 4:15 am... took a cab to the hotel where i was supposed to stay the night before.. long story... slept for a few hours and headed back to the lima airport. the frustrating part began when i tried to check in at Star Peru for my flight to trujillo. Apparently when you buy the ticket online it only charges you a portion of the flight...for all i know they could have charged the whole thing and i would have never noticed. i am bad at looking at my statements.. so they send me to another desk to pay for the rest of the ticket... i go back to the check in desk and they tell me my baggage weighs too much.. they don't speak good english and i don't speak good spanish.. so that added to my frustration... i go back to the other desk and pay for the extra 6 kilos i am carrying...ugh!!!
finally i board my flight to trujillo and arrive in trujillo at approximately 3:00pm. The first thing i noticed as i walked down the steps from the airplane was how dry everything looked. it was flat and dry for miles and at the edge of the horizon re really big dry mountains. The weather is amazing .. bright blue skies...about 65 degrees.. AMAZING! did i also mention it is on the ocean?!?!
So i cab it to the volunteer house and am amazed at how modest it looks on the outside... i guess that is good because when you have a bunch of tourists there is probably a bunch of expensive stuff inside (i.e. computers, cameras, etc)...
THE HOUSE
wow...i think i will be pretty much reliving my college days... it is a wreck.. fairly messy etc... not that i can't hold my own in the messy department but it is weird going from having your own place with nice things in it to a dirty place where pictures are taped on the wall...i am sure i won't think anything of it in a week but right now.. i am like WAIT.... WHAT? did i really choose to revisit my college daysLOL.. i did actually always love the comradery(sp?) of living with a bunch of people. we shall see.. this is all about shaking things up in my life after all right?
i will definitely get some photos up once i get a little more adjusted.
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