The past three weeks have been something else, looking back I still don't think that it's sunk in that I'm in Peru and here for another 10 and a half months, but also the fact there's only 10 and a half months left!
Where to start, we finally moved into our volunteer "house" which is only a bedroom for the two of us, the living room is the library and the other two rooms are for food storage. This meaning our years are going to be very different than expected as we have nowhere to do anything with the kids apart from play in the dust outside, but we'll just have to make the project our own. When we first moved to the house it was just the two of us and a lot of dirt; we tried to clean our room but it wasn't as easy as expected, and since they still needed to put our bunk bed up we had two mattresses on the floor sleeping with the many wood lice.
A week passed and lots of dirt accumulated until they finally came to put our bed up, only to hear we have to wait for another Tio to do it tomorrow, so another night on the floor it was. Once the bed was finally assembled we decided to make a "carpet" out of multiple patterned blankets which turned out to work really well and make the place homely. To top it off we finally got to lose sight of them bloody suitcases we've been living out of for the past month and a half because of the wardrobe we created. This intelligent mechanism is three pieces of ribbon knotted together in the middle, then all hammered in the wall and glue guned into place, it's took long enough but we finally have a place to call home for the next year and it's the best feeling!
We also decorated the bathroom with the mirror and shower curtain we bought so that's nice and pleasant now. However speaking of the shower, we have no hot water for the year so as for my ice bucket challenge, I have to go through that pain every day (apart from the one day I couldn't so washed my hair in the kitchen sink...) it just wouldn't be appropriate for me to voice my pain on the internet. I would say this isn't an issue for me as there's worse in the world, but wow, the initial reaction to the cold water isn't pleasant. Amber actually screamed the first time! Plus the bathroom door is half broken and we locked it accidentally, and had no key so Amber had to kick it down like you see in the movies hahaa!
All in all I couldn't be happier spending all my time with these kids and I've grown to love the new house, despite the many children we have had to lift through a window as we have locked ourself out...
There's been some good and bad days at the Aldea which is funny. We were asked to decorate for one of the girls kinserya's, this being their big birthday. We rolled with it and gave it our best shot, it just turns out our best shot was totally rubbish. Not only that night did they take down our "peasant attempt" of balloons, but we had also put the words of the sign up the wrong way which were glue gunned to the wall. So yes after the birthday girl crying (all due to us) and us feeling lower than low, it turned out to be a really great night. We're lucky to get to see such traditions and be a part of them. The majority of the night was spent dancing with some crazy entertainers, and yet more balloons, eating some more chicken - but it turned out all good and nobody seems to have held a grudge either!!
Umm we took lots of the kids on a trip to the local pool down the road. The walk there was adorable singing a Spanish song with the young girls, everyone excited, only to get there to find a pool with no water... But they don't let that stop them here, after sitting and eating our picnic some of the kids ran around in the empty pool, and the rest found a river over a rickety wooden bridge:
The kids loved it and so did we, it's was refreshing to see them all outside the walls of the Aldea and enjoying themselves!!
Plus me Amber managed to get a photo together even if you can't see my face fully :)
Friday seemed like a regular day, after being idiots and putting too much clothing in the washing machine, we ended up hand washing the majority instead. After hanging my stuff out I return to chaos amoung the kids from casa dos where we still eat, this turned into a full on water fight. I've literally not had that much fun in a long time, we ended up getting our bathroom bin to fill with water to throw at the kids, however we ended up totally soaking. One of the kids, Alfredo, finally decided to just sit in the sink and turn the tap on, a lot funnier than it sounds. To ruin our high, one of the Tia's marched over and all the kids did a runner. She even proceeded to "tell us off" where we were like giggling girls who just couldn't hold in the laughter. Turns out we didn't see the bags of cement on the flood or think about the wooden house getting ruined, but they're only temporary right?! We were left with the words that "direction, the big mans, wouldn't be happy with us on Monday" oooh. It was all well worth it considering how happy with kids were, and us too.
We're still eating with casa dos even though we're not living with them anymore meaning we are now so close to the kids there, meaning we end up causing chaos during meals but it's all fun and games.
But yeah I'm currently in McDonald's getting free wifi and about to run out of battery but I'm having the time of my life and I'm so happy everyone at home is doing great- stay happy x
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