Volunteering Part 2 So that was us for the month of Febuary. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were spent at the school and Wednesday and Friday nights were spent leading conversation classes about topics such as the environment, family, art and literature and the media. This was our favourite bit as we got to learn a bit about Peru and its culture, for example, it´s quite common in the poorer areas here for girls as young as 14 to marry men of 30 without an...

Volunteering Part 2 So that was us for the month of Febuary. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were spent at the school and Wednesday and Friday nights were spent leading conversation classes about topics such as the environment, family, art and literature and the media. This was our favourite bit as we got to learn a bit about Peru and its culture, for example, it´s quite common in the poorer areas here for girls as young as 14 to marry men of 30 without an...

Volunteering Part One: So, after a hair raising bus journey (anyone travelling to South America, NEVER travel with CIAL buses), we arrived tired and confused in the city of Trujillo where we would be spending the next month volunteering. Not a great looking city, it´s the third largest in Peru and more of an economic hub than a tourist attration, but that was ok as we were there to work! Arriving at the address we´d been given, we were ushed straight to bed...