No Aqua!
Life becomes soooo much harder without water. It started out yesterday evening when we found out that there was basically no water in the city... yeah! So bathroom visits were kinda limited and having a shower non-existent. It felt a bit like back in days in Sri Lanka when there were water shortages. Anyways our spirits weren't brought down because of this. We ended up at a Karaoke bar and sung our hearts out untill 2 am in morning.
Now there are seven vounteers in the house. The two of us, three Germans (Katha, Mauritz and Simon) and two American girls Arielle and Grace. We are expecting one one volunteer on Saturday. So in other words we are going to be 10 people sharing a toilet. The other two being Luz and her daughter Emma who live here. So I sure hope this water problem gets sorted out...
Otherwise we just finished another sports class (dance) with the kids from ages 5-11. And we can only say that ALL Peruvians got groove! Yesterday we also visited a slum area that is only a few blocks away from our house. It was really interesting to see and put our thoughts and life into perspective.
Well otherwise this weekend there will be surf, bbq, pisco sours (traditional peruvian cocktail) and a whole lot of beach. We might be able to squeez in a salsa lesson. We are having an awesome time in Trujillo!
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Johanna with friends
Singing our hearts out...!
Word of the day... flexibilty!
Otherwise we've been able to go to beach (whre I think we'll be spending most of our weekends), had Spanish lessons, had a peruvian bbq, figured out the transportation system and hung out with a few other volunteers. It's all good!
Thus the first day of "teaching" came... No hablo español!
Anyways the classes went well, although it is not easy to have a class that only speaks Spanish and we don't... But we've got a feeling that it is going to be a lot of fun!
We have also signed up for Spanish lessons twice a week with our spanish teacher David. A really cool guy that can surprised us with his Norwegian... So soon we might be able to communicate a bit better. Otherwise we tried Ceviche today, a traditional Peruvian dish made by Luz (our hostess) mother and us. We can only say WOW!!! Kinda like sushi but with a lot of lime and spice.
Tomorrow vamos ala playa, wohoo! Which we've been dying for, gets pretty hot here
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Lima was sweet!
We stayed two nights in Lima and then took a bus to Trujillo, where we are volunteer working. But this wasn't just any bus. For 200 (23USD) kr it looked like business class on a plane, with HQ flatscreens, air con, FOOD! and kinda of a bus stuart. AWESOME! 9h felt like nothing. It was really nice driving along the coast, beautiful scenery. Now we have arrivied in Trujillo and our home for the next two months, we are loving it! Tomorrow is our first lesson with some of the kids... Wish us luck!
We are having a really nice time... So far LOVE, LOVE, LOVE peru! Wohoooo!!!!
Country no.1 Cuba
Yes we finally got this blogg going, last time we tried to logg in, it didn't go too well... Here's a quick summary of Cuba.
Very interesting and special country! Took some time getting used to the two currencies, got PRETTY fooled the first day.. But we are gringas (= Loved the music and Viñales! B-E-A-U-tiful. We will try to upload a few pics. 10days was a bit too short to see the whole country and we would love to see more! Love , love,love the casa particulars (cuban homes) we stayed at!
Cuba for us:
-Che, Che, Che and Fidel
-Only Spanish
-White bread, Rice, Black beans
-Excellent music and Salsa
-Horseback riding through valleys
-Turist stomach
-Cigarrs
-Beach
-a whole bunch of patience
-Expensive
-Awesome cars and mojittos!
That's it for now... More on Peru later!
La Playa
Viñales..B-E-A-Utiful!
Johanna in Havanna!
