last day in Huaraz Our last day in our house really felt like it. We rose up to the final dismantling of the house and later our room. I'm sure it's not usual but we put the sheets in to wash, put the mattress on the wall and started taking the bed apart. We helped Dirk with a few things and agreed to meet up with him for a coffee at midday. We had a lot to achieve before then, Sarah had to run a few errands including another attempt to get her dress fixed (ta...

Downhill mountain biking We won a raffle at a pub quiz whilst we were doing our volunteer work and the prize was to have one free day with the adventure agency, Galaxia Expeditions. We visited their office and decided we would do a free day of downhill mountain biking. We arrived at 9am and slowly but surely were decked out with elbow and knee pads and a helmet each. Next our bikes were loaded into the back and onto the roof of a taxi and Andrew, myself and th...

Our last day at school We picked up all our items for school and headed off with a big 'to do' list. Helped in the kitchen with apples and ripping up bread (for a Peruvian dish ajo de gallena), big poster for our fair well, games, kiss a doll somewhere different, balloon around the circle, first two out played statues, then two more rounds with 2 pairs of dancing, Clarita was cheating by using the reflection from her screen to stop the music, both times Sarah a...

So much for a day Spanish lesson were very funny, we completed an exercise with body parts and verbs. Sarah uses 'your mouth works a lot,' which our teacher loved and was trying hard not to laugh. We worked it out and joined in, this was followed by my arms work a lot also and when I got the word knees, Sarah asked me not to say they work to, so I said they were very sore. Jessica and I were giggling while Sarah did the next one. She thought I was being sensible...

Just another day We had the (currently) normal morning withe Spanish and heading to school. On the way we booked the Santa Cruz trek with Quechuandes, $180 for four days all included other than the sleeping bags. We completed more bracelets in the morning and had an easy lunch with the fleas. In the afternoon i played board games with the juniors. Sarah joined in with some kids colouring in. she drew a cartoon horse from a book cover and they loved it. She spe...