So we flew from the Galapagos to Guayaquil then to Lima, spent a quick night in Lima and then flew to Cusco, the main town close to Machu Pichu. Our hotel in Cusco was really cool, it was a former Monastery and had a gorgeous courtyard and really cool rooms. We spent the afternoon in Cusco going to see some very boring ruins and then shopping. The shopping turned out to be quite interesting. Candice came upon a jewlery store she liked and tried to enter but the...

After a night in Quito our next stop was the Galapagos islands. For the next ten days we would be joined by the whole Hundman family, Kyle Hundman´s friend, Sarah and Jenny´s Mom, so we are now traveling as a group of nine. (Minus the fact that a few of the Hundmans missed their flight due to weather, spent a night in Miami and then Guayaquil before speed boating to catch up to our cruise). So for our 5 days in the Galapagos we all stayed on the Santa Cruz boat...

So after a lot of travel to leave chupaca (a cab, then an 8 hour bus ride, then another cab, layover in the airport for hours, flight to Quito, then a nigth in Quito in a hostel and another very interesting local bus in the morning from Quito to the jungle) In the airport we discovered the very popular trend to saran wrap your suitcase with lime green saran wrap, everyone was doing it, it was sooo weird! But we made it to the jungle and made it out of the jungle...

So after 5 full days of teaching (and 2 more to go before we leave Luz de Esperanza for the jungles of Quito), we are proud to report that we have survived and are getting closer and closer to the children as the days go by.As far as our daily schedules go, the three of us all teach different classes at different locations so we are never in one classroom all together. Miss Jenny ("Yenny") is in charge of the Principiantes, children aged 4 to 7. Miss La...

We finally made it to Peru Luz de Esperanza, the organization that we´re volunteering for! The house we are staying in is located in Chupaca, which is a short drive from Huancayo. The organization works with 4 different schools and the volunteers are scattered throughout, depending on each school´s needs. The house itself is a pretty decent building considering we are in a developing country. There is running water which allows us to take (mostly cold, someti...