Today, a bunch of us were going white-river rafting on the Urabumba river. I was really excited because I have never went river rafting before. We were all meeting at the Plaza des Armas, in front of the Mayuc office at 9am. I was going with Sabine, Hassan, Wes, Danny, Logan, Nassim, and Jessica. Mayuc was the company that serviced the river-rafting. The name comes from Quetchua. "Pachimama" means mother earth and "mayuc" means the veins of pa...

I got up today, usual time, to go to my project with Caitlin. We met up with one of the children along the way. It was so cute because she wanted to hold my hand the whole way up the mountain (to our project). The day started with the usual songs that the kids sing before entering into their respective classrooms. Today, we were going to try to match things that rhymed. On the kids' worksheet there were the drawings of a avion, casa, tetera, and below were drawin...

This morning I decided to make french toast for everyone. I was getting sick of the usual breakfast. I had made french toast before and everyone really liked it. Caitlin was feeling a little better and decided to come with me to our project. The cement was not quite finished, but we were allowed to go back to the classrooms today. The playground looked still very dangerous for the kids, but that did not seem to bother the kids or the teachers. Today, we were lea...

When I got up this morning, Caitlin was feeling a bit better to go to our project together. Maritza had informed us that we could have taken another bus there that would have been cheaper. Therefore, we were now taking a bus to Maximo Nivel, and a bus to our project, which cost us in all 1.20 Soles. We took our usual walk up the hill, where we can see the poverty all around us. Music, from one of the house would always be blasting every morning. When we got ther...

Today, I had a really fun day. However, it started out pretty crappy. I had to go in the morning to my volunteer project without Caitlin because she wasn't feeling well. When I got to the school, the actual classes were closed because they were putting cement on the playground to make it more secure for the kids (before it was an uneven floor with sharp rocks everywhere). The 4 year olds and 5 year olds were placed in the another room all together. They were scr...