Hi everyone!! I just got back from being in the states for two weeks. What a spectacular place! Everything is just easier there.No waiting around, you can drink water out of the tab anywhere you want, people are helpful, everything has a set price, people pick up their trash, you can throw toilet paper in the toilet, and, you don't have to ask yourself if this __________(insert food item) is going to make me projectile vomit for the next few days!I think the fir...

Lets talk about corruption: My host cousin is a great student. She scored the highest in her class in secondary school, she got great scores on her university exam, is a swimmer, in great physical condition, bright, and picks up things ver fast. She wanted to go to military school and become a police officer, which in peru is a big deal. HOWEVER, the system is so corrupt, that in order to enter, you have to bribe the addmissions office $4000 just to enter. And f...

Hey all! My host mom just told me an amazing story!! She has 6 brothers and sisters and is the fourth born in the family, 2 years in between each of them.One day, after coming back from school, they were all doing their own thing, working out in the alfalfa fields or doing homework.My host grandmother raised cuy (ginea pig) at the time, and had over 300 of them!!She would sell them in the market in Ica in trade for food for the family, since there were 9 of th...

Hello all! Happy 4th of July!! We had a great vacation, Frieda, Kate, and I, in Yauyos, the mountains of peru. They were, not even joking, the most beautiful place I have ever been! Not only were they beautiful, but one of a kind. They were slightly like mountains in europe, near the north of Italy, but had a touch of norwegian plains, and slightly skinnier. Its hard to describe, but its worth seeing. There is no cell service, internet, and hardly even light...

Hi everyone!! Its been a good long time since I have unpdated my blog. But rest assured, that I am alive and kicking, working here in my community. I am currently working on getting funding for a recycling project in the school system. The idea is that we would get the funds for the containers for the recyclables, which are plastic bags, plastic bottles, glass, organic waste, tin, paper, and cardboard. The schools would send slips home to their parents, com...