Update!!!

The day in Lima was great, we walked around town for awhile and then took a taxi to the city center. We toured the Church of San Francisco, and watched the pigeons attack people on the city square. Getting to the bus station was a little crazy, the cab driver told us he knew where he was going, but he didn’t. I was starting to sweat it when our bus was taking off in 20 minutes and our cab driver was still asking people on the street for directions. When he found the place he dropped us off in back and we had to carry our bags through some dirt and mud to get into the bus station. The bus was really spacious and we had our own lazyboys that reclined into full beds for the trip, So it wasn’t that bad at all.

June 4th
We arrived in Pacasmayo at 6:00 am. Running off of about 4 hours of sleep I was able to get the taxi driver to finally get to our destination… 3rd time was the charm. We got doped up on coffee and took a grand tour of the place. There is a building that is a church and orphanage where all the kids stay, then there is the compound where the school and volunteer houses are. Currently Matt and I are staying in staying in the apartment that also serves as the kitchen for the school, but when some other volunteers leave on Friday were are going to snag their rooms. After the tour we ate lunch and went to the beach for a little while. After that we took a short nap and then proceeded to sort through all the books that we had brought. After dinner we went to a prayer meeting which I assumed was going to last about 30 minutes…I was wrong, we prayed for 2 hours straight, I had forgotten how passionate the Peruvian people were. It was a great day. I’ll post pictures as soon as I have time.

June 5th
Today was the first rested day. I woke up at about 8:00 to the sounds of the school kids playing outside my window. I ate some breakfast and then headed to a nearby town called Champen with Fred, Matt, and Carlos. We went to go check it the appliances were any cheaper there than they were in Pacasmayo… turns out they weren’t. On the way back Fred gave us a tour of a place where they made adobe bricks by hand, sorry I didn’t have my camera I wish that I had. When we got back it was lunch time so we ate then played soccer with some kids for about 30 minutes. After that we helped Ashley teach some English. I have to teach English next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday because she is going to be gone. The teachers at the school all wanted me to teach them English as well, so after the kids went home I tried to teach the teachers, but it was very difficult because they were all at different levels and I had no book to go off of, so I started teaching my Spanish book I had brought with me in reverse. Thursday is missionary night, each American takes a turn cooking for the others on missionary night. We all ate some chili which tasted just like my mothers, it tasted wonderful. After we were finished we sat around and played the guitar and sang songs for about 3 hours, it was great.

Below are some pictures of our accomedations.