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The outskirts of Lima
Dear my loyal readers,
Wow, where am I? Sometimes I lay in my bed thinking, what am I doing here? Other times I feel that I am sitting on top of the world. From what I am told the next two years consist of a roller coaster of highs and lows. Most of my experiences in the last 12 days here have been highs, I can’t really complain. The lows are just a matter of getting used to really. The hardest struggle thus far is living in the past, in every sense of the word. The way of life here is comparable to how I imagine the states before I was born. Also, I absolutely love my family here, but I truly miss the independence I had in the wonderful US of A. Here, I have a curfew and feel obligated to ask permission to go anywhere. Even when mom left the house for an hour, I was told not to go down the stairs, incase I were to fall and hurt myself or die while she was gone. Wow. Different, huh? Well, she doesn’t know this, but I went both down and back up the stairs! REBEL! Ha, okay, that is my week’s worth of venting. Now the good stuff, the people here are GREAT! Everyday we have 4 hours of Spanish class, then 4 hours of Peruvian business classes. Each night is followed with homework, as if I didn’t do enough in college. Over the weekend we celebrated my host mom’s b-day and father’s day! Talk about a different tradition here for father’s day: apparently, it is common to go to the cemetery (where both overcrowded and loud are understatements) and pour beer on the deceased graves’, as if they were drinking here and apart of the fiesta. Incredible. Hmmm…I love potatoes and rice…but not for every meal of the day. NO MORE CARBS!! Ha, and this is only day 12…No but seriously, I am happy here. Crazy busy, and learning a lot. PS let me holler a shout out to my loved ones whose b-days’ I missed: mommy mooshkey, Scotty boy (best bro bro ever!), cousey Charles, Gabberz (miss u roomie!), Court (Love ya!) and all those that I will probably miss within the next 27 months. I miss you all dearly, and love you so much! As always, keep in touch, and remember I am only an email away! LOVE YOU!
Wow, where am I? Sometimes I lay in my bed thinking, what am I doing here? Other times I feel that I am sitting on top of the world. From what I am told the next two years consist of a roller coaster of highs and lows. Most of my experiences in the last 12 days here have been highs, I can’t really complain. The lows are just a matter of getting used to really. The hardest struggle thus far is living in the past, in every sense of the word. The way of life here is comparable to how I imagine the states before I was born. Also, I absolutely love my family here, but I truly miss the independence I had in the wonderful US of A. Here, I have a curfew and feel obligated to ask permission to go anywhere. Even when mom left the house for an hour, I was told not to go down the stairs, incase I were to fall and hurt myself or die while she was gone. Wow. Different, huh? Well, she doesn’t know this, but I went both down and back up the stairs! REBEL! Ha, okay, that is my week’s worth of venting. Now the good stuff, the people here are GREAT! Everyday we have 4 hours of Spanish class, then 4 hours of Peruvian business classes. Each night is followed with homework, as if I didn’t do enough in college. Over the weekend we celebrated my host mom’s b-day and father’s day! Talk about a different tradition here for father’s day: apparently, it is common to go to the cemetery (where both overcrowded and loud are understatements) and pour beer on the deceased graves’, as if they were drinking here and apart of the fiesta. Incredible. Hmmm…I love potatoes and rice…but not for every meal of the day. NO MORE CARBS!! Ha, and this is only day 12…No but seriously, I am happy here. Crazy busy, and learning a lot. PS let me holler a shout out to my loved ones whose b-days’ I missed: mommy mooshkey, Scotty boy (best bro bro ever!), cousey Charles, Gabberz (miss u roomie!), Court (Love ya!) and all those that I will probably miss within the next 27 months. I miss you all dearly, and love you so much! As always, keep in touch, and remember I am only an email away! LOVE YOU!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
June 10, 2008
Well I made it to Peru! Sorry for the delay, apparently this volunteer position is kinda time consuming. Well I would like to start this post by thanking my fellow tax payers for the amazing $800/night hotel we stayed two nights in at the beginning of our journey...quite incredible I must say. Unfortunatly it did not do justice for helping our migration to developing Peru. Today was our second official day of training. There are 38 of us total business development and youth development volunteers in this wonderful country. I am a little disappointed in the lack of crazy hippies but I guess we have been titled ¨professional hippies¨-- a true oxymoron. Anywho, some highlights so far include our fellow volunteer, Glenn, being spit on by a llama wondering in the street. classic. My lowlight of the trip so far would be fainting after a rabbies shot (and I still have four more!). It is really a different world down here, that is one thing I can say. Oh, and something to look foward to is that 99.9% of volunteers in peru get diharreah (sp?) ..so i can´t wait! But anywho, I am living with a host family that is AWESOME! I have a 21 year old sister (soon to be my best friend of course!) and 12 and 7 yr old brothers. The parents are great as well, I couldn´t be happier (well...of course a hot shower would be nice...but lets be realistic...) As far as ginnea pigs go, I haven´t eaten one yet, but that is sure to change soon! I feel like I am back in school, we go to classes from 8am to 5pm everyday...4 hrs of language classes and the rest helping with culture immersion and business in peru. This is going to be a wild trip....thats about all I can say for now. More stories to come! Much love, I MISS EVERYONE!!!! I love you all dearly!! Can´t wait to hear from ya, keep in touch. Love
Kelly
Kelly
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