Hi everyone!A few new things have happened. I keep forgetting how aclimated I am to certain things in peruvian culture. Like seeing dogs do it on the streets every time I walk to and from the training center, which is two times a day. So I see street dogs, stray dogs, do it at least twice a day. can you believe that! I'm not even exaggerating. Twice a day, EVERY DAY! Thats alot of dogs having sex. (I hope this doesnt offend anyone). It struck me, yesterday, ...

Hey guys!Yesterday we had a great hike a few hours from the training center. We drove into the high mountains using peace corps vehicles. It was pretty amazing, since the mountains go almost straight down. I forgot how much I miss seeing them. It give me a sense of adventure and inspiration. Anyway, we hiked for hours up this mountain to see the water source for a village near the base. Really, we hikes 4 hours up to this mountain spring, spent 10 minutes lo...

Hey all!I had a pretty fun day of hiking up a mountain and washing tanks of water for WATSAN! We used some pretty strong chlorine. It was gas-ing me while I was in this huge tank. There were 7 of us in there at a time. It was probably 3 meters diameter and 3 meters tall. Crazy! This took place in Yanacoto, one of the communities that voluneers live in. It costs 50 sentimos to get there from Huascaran. After cleaning the tank, we set the water loose, going d...

Hey all!We went on our mini trip to Canete last week. It was great fun! I stayed in a hostel with two other volunteers, and I definitely feel closer to them than before. We had some quality bonding time. We saw lots of sites with trash management projects and dry bathrooms with diversion toilets. Most of the time was spent in the combi though, driving around. After the tour, we went to eat lunch, which took forever, in the middle of nowhere outside of canete....

Hey all,Another week gone in training. I am so excited to find out my site! One of the current volunteers in Ancash (department of Peru) came and talked to us about his site. From the pictures and from what he said about it, it looks like a crap hole!! Everyone is drunk there all the time, his host dad is a drunk, his room is the living room/storage room, his family blasts huayno music (very peruvian music) from the TV in his room from sun up to sun down, and ...