Adios Alex and Pierce, Bienvenido Salla and Suvi

As I am struggling with posting my jungle videos I decided to first give you an up-date of my day to day life. Last week was my last with Pierce and Alex.
It was a nice week with some great activities for the kids. We started up a pen-palls system with children in England -hope to have some letters back once Pierce and Alex are in England-, did junk band -STOMP idea of using everything as instruments, discovered that their rhythm needs a lot of work-, and ended the week with a treasure hunt.

Because we told them there would be a fiesta -farewell for Alex and Pierce- ladriella was packed friday afternoon, almost 50 children. Pierce stayed with the small kids and Alex was trapped by a dog when he went to get the camera so I ended up doing the trip by myself and 35 children.
Challenging but fun.
In the evening we had a farewell dinner in a restaurant specialized in cow hart and look-a-like donuts (more my thing).
Cullinair up-date of last week, the chaps ate cow hart and guinea pig, I learned to make pisco sour (is now my favourite cocktail) with wich I ate raw green beens -finish snack-.

The lads are now in Cusco and have rented a motorbike to go to Matchu Pitchu -probably the start of motorcycle diaries 2-

After a very quiet, relaxing weekend my finish roomies Suvi and Salla are now joining me to Ladriella. They both come from the hart -capital- of Lapland home of santa (apparently he really has a house their and loads of tourist come to visit him).
Tomorrow I will go to the orphanage with them for a few days to see what it is like. They will keep going to the orphanage as it is for their internship for school. Saturday a new volunteer should come to assist me in the future with Ladriella.

The picutures you see today are from our bingo -with pictures- and memory game. Both in an attempt to learn english names.

Tomorrow we go to the center to buy batteries for the music installation, also a good excuse to go to the cake shop, it has become a weekly ritual.

For the moment the weather is strange here, even more -wisselvallig- as in belgium, one minute you are sweating like crazy the next it s cold and windy. But in general the Peruvians -especially the older generation- always dress up like it s winter. Layers of wollen clooths when we are -puffen- in our t shirt. Patty told me it is because they believe that cold makes you sick. For instance you can't give children cold water, it will make them sick. Well it is perception propably because what they think is cold is a summer day in belgium. (Salla told me that an african friend said their green winter was bearable when he was he was talking about their summer...)

For some -unfortunate- under you the alarm clock will almost go 6h24. I am going to the land of the dreaming and hope to meet you soon in the virtual world.

slaapwel Bie