Beware of Dogs!!!

I took the plane to Lima where I joined Ronny and our driver. We then went to a hostel in Lima at roughly 2 am. We were both very very excited to be here and tried a local beer before bed. The next day....."good morning Peru" We ate breakfast and waited for our next taxi to the airport to fly to Cuzco.


We arrived to Cuzco where we met Audrey and Edwardo our driver. We drove for one hour through the mountains to Urubamba. Wow, is Peru different. Especially this area. The urubamba area was far more rural than I originally expected. As we were driving Audrey noted that there was an abundance of dogs.....we will come back to this later.

The first few days Ronny and I climatized and met the volunteers at the NeVo house and built great friendships from that start. We also started meeting the locals right away. Our first local we met was Senor Daniel who was the owner of the hostel we are staying at for the first month called "The Palace" named after one of the volunteers. Senor Daniel is a great man who really does all he can to make you feel comfortable living there. He was also a great first person to practice our new language, Spanish.

Ronny and I started our first day in a meeting in regards to a project we will be working on called Media Luna where we discussing different aspects of the project and the development of the Media Luna's capacity with a local mirco finance institution. We were also working in Villa Marcelo where we aided in some very extremely difficult labour picking into the ground, shoveling stone, and lifting boulders. A long days work. The next day Ronny who has superior computer capabilities than I went to Media Luna to set up computers and I went back to Villa Marcelo to do more labour and meet Hector the Director of the school. This day Ronny and I started finding our fit in NeVo. We will be actively involved with Media Luna and all its aspects, and the oversight of the Villa Marcelo funds and implementation of activities from this point on. We started spending more time meeting key contacts and discussing future plans. Now, doing all this requires language abilities. Therefore, Ronny and I have started spanish classes and all I can say is "wow my brain hurts". We will learn alot very shortly.

This paragraph goes to new experiences. During our stay here we have made a strong effort to  try everything that comes infront of us. Bargaining in a market, taking the combi and moto, drinking sugar cain juice, and yes for all of you who heard about my desire to try Cuy it was done!!!!! The final expierence that was not expected was quickly discovered during our first walk home. There is an abundance of wild dogs that run the streets. During the day, they are tranquil and friendly. At night, they gather is packs and become alive which turns out to be a little aggresive to humans walking home in pitch black streets. What a scary expierence!!

Hasta Luego!!