From Lima

Once again I would like to apologize for the frequency (especially the lack of) of posts during the last few weeks. We’ve been very busy with limited internet most of the time. And finally that we’re here in Lima, it’s within safe walking distance in a relatively safe part of town (I certainly wouldn’t want Catherine walking out here alone).

Anyway, we spent one fun week in the sun in Camana, where we went to the beach on Saturday-only got a few pictures of that though, because it was very windy and the sand would have gotten all inside my camera. Not the best thing that can happen to a DSLR. But I have some decent pictures from the clinic, despite being stuck in dental the whole week we were there as a translator. Catherine was stuck full time in Pharmacy, the poor thing spent much less time outside her room than I did.

We took a bus ride on Saturday night to Lima, it was a nice, long 12 hours. But we went first class, so only 12 people in the whole cabin (compared to the 40-some upstairs). We both sleep really well for a bus trip, but badly for a regular night. We arrived in Lima sleep starved from the week before, and took a long 3-hour nap when we arrived.

We’ve had a long, but great two weeks here in Lima with a lot of the same friend we had in Ica: Cristian (dentist), Yelina (dentist), Karem (optometrist from Moquegua), Keren (dentist from Ica), Willy and Enrique (both of which were in Ica). Tania is leading this mission--it´s her last year, next year Enrique is going to be in charge of the Lima mission.

So expect pictures as soon as I can get them uploaded (when I get back to the office on Monday). Apart from that, we’re heading back to Arequipa on Friday night at 9pm, and hopefully the ride won’t take the 15 hours that I’m expecting. Or at least that I’ll be able to sleep and watch a movie. Catherine is well, she just called home to say hi, but she’s definitely alive too!

Sorry for the sparse updates, but we’ll hopefully be able to update more frequently now that we’re heading back to Arequipa for 3 weeks--at least until we have to leave the country for our visas (we’ve spent 6 of the last 9 weeks in Peru on missions!!!).

Take care everyone!
-Will (and Catherine)