It´s Thursday, day three of the Spanish classes for students. Most of the students love their classes; they have one teacher for the morning session and a different one for the afternoon. One group received some homework, and of course they weren't happy about that! Another class went to the Cusco zoo today, and it sounded like that was fun. Students are becoming more fluent and using their Spanish more often to buy water, snacks and barter for other goods (hats, sweaters, finger puppets, necklaces, etc.). No one has yet to eat guinea pig or alapaca, but several students are game to try them!
The Amauta School took us to dinner on Tuesday night. We ate good food and experienced a wonderfully traditional Peruvian atmosphere, including live Andean music. The volunteer work continues to go well, Olga and Joaquin will send more photos soon. Two of the volunteer projects are at orphanages where the kids live full time, and those are a bit more challenging in terms of teaching English. The children mostly want undivided attention and affection. They love playing games, anything from hackey sack to cards. The other two projects involve working with kids who attend after school programs in order to keep them off of the streets and safe. These are more structured atmospheres and the children are there voluntarily, and are more focused on learning English in addition to a lot of physical play: futbol (soccer), running, dancing, games, etc. The program that Grisha´s group works with has integrated music lessons with our students, who are teaching them to play, read, and write music. Today, in the late afternoon, we will go to a local open market, and then attend Peruvian cooking classes at the school.
Okay, I best get back to working out the details with Olga for our itinerary in place of Machu Pichu. Will send that as soon as it is absolutely finished.
Hope all is well. We're having so much fun -- but we do think of home and our families. We are all rested and no longer sleep-deprived.
Hasta Luego,
Heather
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