Before coming to Peru, I was most excited about Lake Titicaca, and it hasn´t disappointed. I wake up about an hour outside Puno. It´s sunrise over the Peruvian altiplano, a vast barren land broken only by the snow-capped Andes. Breath-taking. Puno itself is really not nice though and I did not want to linger, so half-asleep stumbled to the dock to catch a boat to one of the lakes many islands. immediately i´m surrounded by people trying to sell every imagi...

So it´s been a couple of weeks since the last blog and i´m now almost halfway through my stay in Cusco. The period has been a mixed bag of emotions but I now feel a much greater sense of belonging here. The weekdays are very routine with school in the morning and exploring new parts of the city in the afternoon. The school is becoming more rewarding as my confidence grows and I become more comfortable with the children. as people may previously know, me and...

Day 6- !st day of school today. I´m so nervous which had caused a very disrupted sleep the night before. At 7.30am I head for the bus and thankfully one of the teachers from the school is there, as I really had no idea where I was going. When we arrive there are just a few children and i´m asked to get some puzzles out and look after them. This seemed an easy enough task, however I soon realise that the kids really couldn´t understand my English instructions a...

Day 1- And so here I am, the end of my 1st day and what a day! As I write this I am somewhere over North America on my second of three flights listening to ´The Queen is Dead´ which LAN have so very kindly provided on their in-flight entertainment. The time? No idea. My ipod tells me it is 5.19am. I´ve now been up for 21 hours and only halfway through my journey. Already Ferndown and that lunchtime carvery seem so far away. The 1st flight ran very smoothly ...