Dear Readers,
Well we decided to check in on how our friends in Kenya are doing on their trip. Wow! 35 posts stacked up against our lowly 12... I guess we know who´s doing more work! Ha, I am mostly kidding, but seriously, we have ¨heard¨ our cross-globe WLS students are staying in a nice dorm, with Internet, cooks, translators at their homestays, probably AC, a soda machine, television, massages, and a Starbucks (I deduced this from reading about all the delicious `chai` they are drinking)...Life here in Peru is a little different...
Friendly competition aside, work on the classroom is going very well. We were impressed to hear about all of the work the Kenya students have accomplished. We learned a lesson in Peru pace when we attempted to start our project but first had to move over 3 tons of beans out of the room we are making into a library. We are painting murals but have to make sure to take time to show the school kids how to paint and help them paint parts of their classrooms, because they want to be involved with our project so much.
Our students are just loving the homestays. The mamas have been so generous with their cooking, space, and love that all of our hearts have been warmed. It will be difficult to leave them even though we´ll be rewarded by seeing Machu Pichu and experiencing our 2nd hot shower of the trip (this Thursday).
We`re in our homestays until Thursday, and we`ll be able to have student blogs again when we get back to Ollanta that evening. To write this post we had to navigate about 6 sockets, 3 modems, 2 computers, contless wires, and a satelite dish, all while keeping an eye on the loose wire hanging from the wall in the `mudroom of casa de Mario`(my homestay)... he is the President of the community so he gets to have a computer. Not sure how many more times we´ll be able to successfully log on.
Off to bed- it`s 815...Mama will be here at 5 to cook us breakfast.
-Peru Trip Leaders
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From the former Ensworth students and faculty, now Maasai warriors...sorry about your beans!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to hear that your homestays have walls...our walls were dung, sticks and ash, with a little pee thrown in for good measure. Sleeping with the livestock isn't as bad as we thought and 100 degrees can be quite refreshing when you have warm water to drink from a dusty water bottle.
All joking aside...we're just extra tech-lucky. It's great to hear we share wonderful homestays, hard-working students and involved communities.
We're thinking of you from 10,000 miles away!
-Ensworth-Kenya