I Fell In Love

After a week of staying here I can actually say that I have fell in love with the Peru's culture and landscape. The people here are very friendly. I find spanish a little difficult at the moment but in time I am hoping that will change. Spanish lessons have started and I am hoping in a month I will be able to have fluid spanish  conversations in full.

I also went to present money towards the NeVo Social Fund to the school named here IES. Tecnico Agropedcuario Urubamba as a representative for the Welland Rotary Club. This was a very great experience and the school expressed great gratitude for the donation towards the 2 place winner.

Ronny and I have also spent a good amount of time in seperate meetings with different stakeholders in the community for our current projects. These are the building blocks for the implementation for our contributions to the NeVo projects.


Thursday night the NeVo house had its culture night. Thursday we went to a ceramic makers house. We met a man who makes pottery for local markets. He told us his story and we met his children. We also learnt and experience the difficulty of his craft. This was a very new expierence and I think I have found a new hobbie when I return home. His daughter began telling me all about the Quechua festivals with all the different types of clothing. Little did I know that I would get to view this type of festival so soon.

This weekend I was supposed to join NeVo group for a trip to Cuzco, However, do to illness, I could not attend and spent the day sleeping......this sucked! Sunday I felt much better and decided to climb a
small mountain with Ronny and a new volunteer Ryan. Just prior to climbing we came across a very cool festival. After the festival, we purchased banana fingers and then climbed a small mountain. For a first climb, it was a hard one hahaha. The view at the top was just amazing. We spent some time enjoying the views and later went down, took a moto to a very fancy resturante named Tunupa and ate our fill. A new food this week was Alpaca meat......yum.

Hasta Luego!


A new tongue twister:
CONFUSO CONFABULABA UNA CONFUSA
CONFABULACION,
CONFUNDIDO NO CONFIABA EN LA CONFUNDIDA CONFABULACION,
QUE ACABABA DE CONFABULAR