Hello Peru

We have barely any time to ourselves so interent is hard to get! Also, I don´t have texting here for some reason, but I am safe and comfortable and not being force fed at all! haha. Anne and I love love LOVE Cusco, it reminds me a lot of San Miguel, except a little bit bigger. Its pretty calm and quaint and mystical, especially at night when the mountainside is lit up with the lights from the houses. There are a lot of tourist here which is weird after being alone in Africa. We´ve been able to see Ryan and Rachel and Claire the past two days which has been really really nice, it´s fun to all be back together again. It´s really REALLY cold here, I´ll probably end up buying some more coats and mittens and hats. The food is pretty good, lots of bread and coca tea, which is from the same plant as cocaine haha. Our Peru family is great, they really let us do our own thing, which is wonderful. Lunch is the big meal that we eat all together, but we do breakfast and dinner on our own, usually just bread and tea which is goo because the altitude makes it hard to digest food at night. Cusco really is a cool city, and we feel really safe. I´m glad we did africa first because it was definitely more out there and on our own, and this is much more modern with hot water and mcdonalds and stuff like that. So even though we´re a lot busier, it´s kind of like a vacation. This weekend we´re going to go to Lake Titicaca, and stay in Puno, and then next week we´ll take a day off of spanish lessons and volunteering to go to the Sacred Valley. Our whole day is booked, though, with lessions from 9 till 1 and working at the orphanage from after lunch until 5 or 5 30! This week, all the girls are doing ceramics lessons from 6 to 8 and next week we plan on doing cooking lessons. My spanish is picking back up, which is good, and talking to the boys at the orphanage is especially helpful because i´m less afraid of messing up, haha.

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