Hola from Ayacucho, high up in the Peruvian Andes! I´m coming to the end of the three week project staying in a house with local and international volunteers and working with over 40 boys in the local orphanage. Ayacucho means ´The Soul´s Home´in Quechua, the indiginous language and the town is really pretty and colourful with lots of traditional markets and panpipe music. It´s bizarre that (cold!) water and electricity comes and goes to our house but we can pick up Wi-fi in the bedroom! On our days off we´ve been on some amazing trips into the mountains, really off the beaten track.
Working with the boys has been fun but hard work! Due to their backgrounds and huge number they are often completely out of control. Quite a few of our activities have decended in chaos and trips out involve trying to stop them running in front of trucks and climbing onto the roofs of three storey buildings! On the other hand, in smaller numbers they can be very sweet and always want to play. I´ve also enjoyed taking few older boys for english classes every morning. They find it hard but are keen to learn so they can get jobs when they leave the home.
It´s been great getting to know a place and people for more than a couple of days but I´m really looking foward to hitting the gringo trail again with Monica. (he he only kidding - in fact Amy´s hair usually looks great! Sorry if she´s had to use the blog as an outlet for her hair anxieties, but I had to ban her from describing it´s problems to me after about a week!)
Lots of Love, Chao, Sally x
2 comments:
I'm pleased that you have learnt how to write on the blog, that was a really nice entry - glad to hear that the voluntary work has gone well. Have fun when you get back to travelling and hope your mum enjoys herself too! What's the date for the Machu Pichu trek? Suerte! xxx
Sally no more writing on the blog for you - everyone prefers your entry!! Fair enough actually, none of my children climbed on 3 storey buildings! Although they did climb on the rail on top of the swings and me (ever the responsible adult) took photos while they posed!!And then we got caught - whoops!
And can i just point out that Im much better about my hair now! and its everyone else that always brings it up!
x
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