It’s Semana Santa (Holy Week) here in Peru and as a result almost all the shops and businesses are closed. We also got a couple days off, so I got to play tourist a bit. On Thursday I went with Marina, Jovita, and a mess of youth group kids to visit Huaco de la Luna, [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Playing Tourist
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Things I’m learning here in Peru
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
1. Take toilet paper with you if you want it because unless the place you’re visiting in the home of Americans or Spainards, you’re not gonna find any.2. If you are white, you WILL burn. I put sunscreen on three times today alll over my body and then washed my hands…and the [...]
It was bound to happen…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Well I spent this morning hanging out at home rather than with the kids, recuperating from my “mal estomago”. Yep, I definitely ate something that didn’t agree with the system. Bummmmmerrrr! I’m starting to feel a bit better, though I’ll probably keep the food pretty light for a bit. I had [...]
So I thought I was doing so good because I had thu…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2006 | 4 Comments »
So I thought I was doing so good because I had thus far managed to avoid any weird illnesses, the intestinal complications I was told were inevitable, sunburn, bites, rashes, etc. Yesterday I got fried and eaten alive. The sun here is so strong that I was outside for like 10 minutes and [...]
My typical day and various other things
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
In El Apocento with me are Alvarro (27), his wife Montse (26), and their 3 year old Ruth. I get along great with most of the kids here, but it took her a little bit to warm up to me. She was probably thinking, “who is this crazy girl that looks like a [...]
Gratitude
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
How many times a day would you say you’re really thankful? I’m in this country, I’m surrounded by poverty and yet I’ve never experienced gratitude like I see here. In the US I, well all of us, have so much and yet we’re always thinking about what we lack. In reality, there is nothing material [...]
So much to say..
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I hardly know where to begin since I have so much I want to say and really not that much time to write. Well, first off a little bit about the situation I´m staying in and what I´m doing. The apartment/house I’m living in is called “El Aposento” and from what I can gather, I [...]
En Trujillo!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2006 | 2 Comments »
So I made it. And Í am so happy to be here. It´s pretty funny because I´m in the middle of Peru, but am still hearing Catalan since most of the people I am staying with are from Barcelona! Makes me feel very at home. Yesterday was a long day of [...]
My first adventure!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Hey all! So I’m sitting at a little internet kiosk in LAX….yup, that’s right, right here in the good ole’ los estados unidos. I was supposed to go to Lima last night, but apparently God had different plans! When I was on my flight from San Fran to LA, the flight attendant [...]
