Yesterday we spent another day at the orphanage with the kids. The kids very kindly helped me learn a little Spanish before teaching me some games they love to play. One of the boys, Valentino, taught me how to play a game involving a spinning top and a piece of string. It is pretty addictive so definitely going to buy one as soon as I see one in a shop. Just before we left we went to visit the really young kids and they wouldnt let us leave until we gave them al...

First of all Feliz Fanny Friday, but that's a different story which I will get to soon but first il tell you what iv been up to the last couple of days. On Wednesday morning we were travelling to the building project in bernabe's car and when we stopped at the lights a child appeared from nowhere and started to cartwheels and hand stands in front of the waiting traffic. Bernabe told us that these kids are sent out by their parents to beg because the parents don't...

This week we have been starting work at 10am so a bit of a lie in every morning makes a huge difference to the day. Today we continued the painting on the building project until we ran out of paint. Because of this we started work on a room we have not been in before, which lead to us finding loads of old furniture and mattresses stuffed with hay, all of which had to be moved in the midday sun. There was also a bed in this room so we decided to donate it to the f...

So after a crazy weekend iv not had a chance to update this until now. On Saturday we were invited to a wedding of one of the families we are helping in which the father has had a stroke so is unable to rebuild a collapsed wall, so we thought it's best to hire suits and dresses and go all out for the special occasion. Finding a suit big enough was quite a problem considering I am a good foot taller than your average Peruvian, but I eventually we found this suit w...

Today we had a pretty big set back on the building we are doing up, and which we are hoping to move the after school club in to from Monday. We spent the morning cleaning and prepping the interior walls ready to be painted but when testing the paint it comes falls off the previous layer very easily. The paint is so watered down over here that it makes it very difficult to use so now we have to sand all the previous layers of paint off the interior walls before we...