We´re in Colca, we made it back from Chile just in time to leave for the Colca mission 3 days later. When I get back, I owe you pictures from Chile, Colca, and Comida (food!). Something to look forward to. Right now we´re buying our plane tickets for the jungle mission in Puerto Maldonado. Internet is being slow. As such, I´m blogging really quick to let you all know we are still alive! And very, very busy and tired.
Hugs from both of us!
-Will
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Leaving for Chile
This is going to be short because... well... there´s no reason to make it long. We´re in Tacna, Peru, where we stayed last night about to cross the border into Arica, Chile for a few days break. We had yummy Chinese food last night--maybe some of the best since getting here, and soon we´ll find something for lunch today. Wish us luck crossing the border! Two more stamps, here we come!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Three Weeks
Well, we´ve been in Arequipa about three weeks now, and it shows. It´s not that being here is boring, quite the contrary, it´s just nice to have the missions to mix things up. Well, the next two months are going to be exciting and non-stop so maybe the rest was good.
Anyway, here´s the next two months blocked out:
April 18-23rd: Arica, Chile to renew our tourist visas
April 26-May 7th: Colca Mission, lots of fun, very cold
May 14-28th: Puerto Maldonado Mission, lots of insects, very hot
May 29-June 2nd: Catherine´s family is in town, who knows what we´re going to do
June 4-13th: Chris (Stinky) in Peru to hang out until the mission, probably Macchu Pichu
June 14-28th: Arequipa mission, fun, lots of work
June 28-July ?: Dad in town to hang out, who knows what we´re going to see
July ?-?: Bolivia to renew our passport once more before we leave.
Anyway, that´s through mid July at least. Somewhere in there we have to fit in studying and research. It´ll be a blast!
Anyway, that´s life for the next few months.
Pictures to come, I promise!
-Will
Anyway, here´s the next two months blocked out:
April 18-23rd: Arica, Chile to renew our tourist visas
April 26-May 7th: Colca Mission, lots of fun, very cold
May 14-28th: Puerto Maldonado Mission, lots of insects, very hot
May 29-June 2nd: Catherine´s family is in town, who knows what we´re going to do
June 4-13th: Chris (Stinky) in Peru to hang out until the mission, probably Macchu Pichu
June 14-28th: Arequipa mission, fun, lots of work
June 28-July ?: Dad in town to hang out, who knows what we´re going to see
July ?-?: Bolivia to renew our passport once more before we leave.
Anyway, that´s through mid July at least. Somewhere in there we have to fit in studying and research. It´ll be a blast!
Anyway, that´s life for the next few months.
Pictures to come, I promise!
-Will
Monday, April 6, 2009
Quick Arequipa Update
Will was kind of annoyed I have't written any posts, so here is mine.
We've been back from Lima for over a week. I really liked the mission, but I was really worn out by the end. 3 weeks straight was tiring. I had 3 Peruvian rooommates which was fun and good practice for my spanish, but it made it hard to sleep at times - because they like to talk. Will had 7 or so roommates so I can't complain, I had it easy ;)
My job for my 1 week in Camana and 2 weeks in Lima was to be translator in the Pharmacy. It's not the most exciting job, but I guess somebody has to do it ;) It was very beautiful in Camana and in places of Lima.
We're now back in Arequipa, working in the office and the children´s home. I'm also trying to get my stuff together for my first mini-paper I have to write for school. So I'm writing interview questions, reading some stuff out of my text books for ideas, and researching a little bit. But we need to get moving a bit, I think.
And other than that, I'm still alive and healthy.
Love,
Catherine
We've been back from Lima for over a week. I really liked the mission, but I was really worn out by the end. 3 weeks straight was tiring. I had 3 Peruvian rooommates which was fun and good practice for my spanish, but it made it hard to sleep at times - because they like to talk. Will had 7 or so roommates so I can't complain, I had it easy ;)
My job for my 1 week in Camana and 2 weeks in Lima was to be translator in the Pharmacy. It's not the most exciting job, but I guess somebody has to do it ;) It was very beautiful in Camana and in places of Lima.
We're now back in Arequipa, working in the office and the children´s home. I'm also trying to get my stuff together for my first mini-paper I have to write for school. So I'm writing interview questions, reading some stuff out of my text books for ideas, and researching a little bit. But we need to get moving a bit, I think.
And other than that, I'm still alive and healthy.
Love,
Catherine
Back in Arequipa
You people don't comment anymore. Bad!
We're back in Arequipa, and have been here for about a week since the Lima mission (see the pictures in the previous post). Not much has happened in the last week, we've just been working at the orphanage (4 days last week) and the MMI office. The kids at the orphanage have accepted us now, which isn't necessarily a good thing. They're little hellions sometimes, and have decided that I'm their personal pack mule and that I'm required to have one child on my shoulders every minute I'm standing up (or sitting down sometimes too).
This week is a little more exciting since it's Semana Santa (Holy Week). It's also Danitza's birthday (the 15-year old that lives in Catherine's house and just started Med School--Tania and Helen's cousin) on Thursday, but since Thursday is a day of reflection, we're probably going to do something Wednesday. Semana Santa also means a 3-day work week for us this week.
It also means a special menu for the week--no red meats allowed (not sure about chicken) but we're going to have a lot of fish and seafood this week... YUMMY!
We have to leave the country this month for Visa purposes, so we're thinking about going to northern Chile around the 16th for the better part of week, and come back in time for the Colca mission. We have to leave the country again in July, so we're thinking about a nice trip to Bolivia and lake Titicaca and Copacabana. That'll be our longer trip, this short jump across the border to Chile isn't going to be anything big--we can't make it down to Santiago as we would like, just Arica.
We've started working on our Practicum requirements, but there's a lot left ahead of us. The biggest thing we need to keep in mind is to not get too distracted by work and get everything done now so we can polish and perfect later on when we get back to the US. It's hard to start the day at 8, get done with everything at 8 and then try to get more work done, but it has to be done. Luckily there's a 4-day weekend without possibilities to go out, so we should get a lot done this weekend.
We're back in Arequipa, and have been here for about a week since the Lima mission (see the pictures in the previous post). Not much has happened in the last week, we've just been working at the orphanage (4 days last week) and the MMI office. The kids at the orphanage have accepted us now, which isn't necessarily a good thing. They're little hellions sometimes, and have decided that I'm their personal pack mule and that I'm required to have one child on my shoulders every minute I'm standing up (or sitting down sometimes too).
This week is a little more exciting since it's Semana Santa (Holy Week). It's also Danitza's birthday (the 15-year old that lives in Catherine's house and just started Med School--Tania and Helen's cousin) on Thursday, but since Thursday is a day of reflection, we're probably going to do something Wednesday. Semana Santa also means a 3-day work week for us this week.
It also means a special menu for the week--no red meats allowed (not sure about chicken) but we're going to have a lot of fish and seafood this week... YUMMY!
We have to leave the country this month for Visa purposes, so we're thinking about going to northern Chile around the 16th for the better part of week, and come back in time for the Colca mission. We have to leave the country again in July, so we're thinking about a nice trip to Bolivia and lake Titicaca and Copacabana. That'll be our longer trip, this short jump across the border to Chile isn't going to be anything big--we can't make it down to Santiago as we would like, just Arica.
We've started working on our Practicum requirements, but there's a lot left ahead of us. The biggest thing we need to keep in mind is to not get too distracted by work and get everything done now so we can polish and perfect later on when we get back to the US. It's hard to start the day at 8, get done with everything at 8 and then try to get more work done, but it has to be done. Luckily there's a 4-day weekend without possibilities to go out, so we should get a lot done this weekend.
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