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.