6 weeks and counting....

Some guards at El Brujo

Wow, this has gone by much faster than last week, which is definitely good. I love the weekends, but I definitely love the weekdays to because of the kids. Well, before I start rambling off about how awesome this week was, I must first discuss something ever so tragic. Last Saturday, I went shopping with Jayde (intern) and Candy (Peruvian sister) at a big massive market place that had stalls after stalls of shoes. I have never seen so many shoes in one specific area in my entire life. It was there however, that I got my wallet stolen out of my purse. It was there one minute, and then when I went to check again, it was gone!! I totally freaked out and didn’t know what to do, so Candy had to calm me down and take me back home. There I had to break the news to my parents, which they were actually much calmer than I was. So I had no money, no driver’s license, no credit cards, and no student ID cards….NOTHING!!! It was quite traumatic, but after a couple of hours, I was much better.

Huaca Cao Viejo

Dinner then karaoke

The story does have a much happier ending though, I ended up going to this really cool place called El Brujo which is clear out in the middle of nowhere, about an 1 ½ hour away from Trujillo. Jayde and I went with an American we met over here on an internship through USU. She also went with us to the Huacas the week before. At El Brujo, we went to Huaca Cao Viejo, which is very similar to the place that we had gone last week, but the cool thing was that they had recently (within the past 10 years) discovered a woman governor, which meant that they were all men. And they had her at the museum on-site, so we got to see a real life mummy person. It was pretty tight. We ended the night going out to a place called Roky’s which had a karaoke section, so the 3 of us sang karaoke which is definitely a first for me.

Jocelyn

Making bracelets

Well, this week has been quite busy. On Tuesday, we taught some of the older kids how to make friendship bracelets. They are absolutely crazy about them and constantly want to make them now that they know how. I worked with a girl named Jocelyn, but the problem is that she kind of reminds me of my cousin Kade. She tends to make fun of me tease me a lot, but I think that means she likes me in the long run. However, this time wasn’t that fun because she decided to cut off a little bit of my hair when I wasn’t paying attention. But I caught her trying to cut more off and made her stop. I was lucky that she only did a little bit. Overall though, the bracelet making was a success and the kids absolutely loved it!

The finished product

Later on in the week, we did art with a little girl named Perla. I don’t know if I have talked about her before, but she is quite special. In the past, we found out that she really likes to color, so we decided to get a big piece of paper, trace her, and then let her color the whole thing in. It was way fun, and reminded me of preschool because I’m pretty sure I did that too when I was little. She was way good too, she held still while we traced her and let us help color her back in. When we finished, we put it up on the wall and she was so excited to see it all finished. It didn’t matter to her that she had purple hair or her arms were two different colors, she just had fun.

Tracing Perla

Lastly, we decided to teach the kids another game. The game we decided upon was the one where you tie balloons around each person’s leg, then they have to stomp on each other’s without getting theirs stomped on and the last person who has their balloon is the winner. I have no idea what it’s called but we called it Balloon Stomp. As soon as we walked outside with the balloons, the kids went completely nuts! You would think they had never seen a balloon before in life. We tried to calm them down and tell them how to play, but they didn’t wait for us to say go, as soon as the balloons were on their ankles, they took off. Some kids got theirs stomped on right off, so they just had to have another so they could actually play the game (hint of sarcasm). One little girl in particular named Sofia was very smart, she climbed up the soccer goals onto the basket ball hoop and sat there with her balloon and waited till everyone was done. Haha kids here tend to climb like little monkeys. I am proud to say that we only made 2 kids cry because it definitely could have been a whole lot worse.

Overall, this week feels like it has been so much busier than some of the other weeks that I have had. The busy the week however, the fast it ends up going. I truly just can’t believe that in over a month, I will be leaving Peru…..let’s not think about it!!!