Hey all,I hope things are going well at home. Peace corps is going well. Today, I basically stay in my community of huascaran all day today. I have language classes at my house, with 4 other volunteers and a teacher, before lunch, and after lunch, myself and two other volunteers have to knock on doors and ask questions about the community. We are doing a survey. We need a map of the community and a weekly schedual from each of them. This way, we can see wha...

Well, the inevitable happened. I got sick. Not too bad though. I'm not bed-ridden for a few days. Its just a cold. Thanks goodness I dont have any pooping problems as well, because a fever and diarria mean something really bad. Apparently the Peace Corps is all about talking about poop. If you are really sick for days, they want you to send a stool sample so they can see what kind of bacteria/virus/parasite you have. The current volunteers say they have do...

Hi all!My first week in Peru has gone by. Things are going very smoothly. My family is great, I am learning lots of spanish, and everyone is very supportive here. Though I am starting to get a little frustrated with my spanish. It just is such a slow process, I am getting impacient. The other night, my family was talking about me at the dinner table, and I could really understand what they were saying. Thats a real downer. When someone talks about you when...

Funny story: Some people have funny stories about their host families. One girl went home, and was unpacking her bag, and she wanted to go to the bathroom. But the family only gets water on one day out of the week, and they save the rest in buckets. So she asked the dad how to use and fill the toilet with water, but her spanish isnt very good. So she kept saying "limpia, limpia" meaning how to flush the toilet. The dad didn't know what she ...

Hey everyone! I am in Huascaran, an hour outside of Lima. Things are pretty hectic and new here. I met my host family for the time I am in training, meaning for the next three months. They are a family of four, a father who is a professor for civil engineering, a mother who is a professor for technical degrees, a daughter who is 16 and wants to be a civil engineer and another daughter who is 11 and doesnt want to be an engineer. Its interesting that they are...