A while ago I had asked my mom to send me some warhead candy and she delivered.  If you don't know what warheads are then you're just like all the unsuspecting Peruvians I had the privilege of sharing with.  I asked for them specifically because I knew that the sour genre of candy doesn't exist here allowing for some fun times.  The volunteers here at Hogar de Esperanza had a great time with me watching kids pucker up and make sour faces the first time they tried them.  My favorite incident though was in church.  Last Sunday I put about ten of the warheads into my pockets and waited for some kids to start looking drowsy.   I would poke them one by one very quietly and then show them the candy and of course they wanted one.  So I gave them one but gave them the "shhh" no noise sign.  They would nod their head in agreement and then pop one of them into their mouths.  The complete surprise coupled with the forbidden noise making made for some pretty funny faces and muffled laughing.  Then the kid who tried it would wait and watch the next one try it.  Pretty hilarious.

Also this week, I went to a meeting on the topic of starting an adolescent home.  There is a group of people who want to start a home for adolescents that come from other orphanages.  This home would help the kids who have no chance of being adopted start getting their futures in line.  One of the biggest problems I think of any orphanage system is what do the kids do when they turn 18.  It is an obvious need in Peru and there are some pretty cool people who are getting together to try and help out.

Random but maybe interesting I guess you decide.  This last week I was given the task of helping our night guard learn how to use a computer to send emails.  He has been sleeping on the job we've found out so one of the ways we have decided to combat that is to have him send an email every 30 minutes so we can make sure he is awake (for at least 1 minute every 30 minutes I guess).  Well imagine trying to teach your mother how to send email then multiply it by 10.  The dude has never touched a computer in his life.  So I had the bright idea of setting up an outlook shortcut that would automatically fill out the email address and subject for him and all he would have to do is click send.  That was going well until for some reason our computer which needs to be reformatted started sending out multiple copies of the e-mail or missing some times etc..because of the outlook program not working right.  So then I had to show him how to use gmail.  It was hard enough showing him how to click on an icon and then click send, so filling out an entire email as you can imagine was even more difficult.  Well I guess I didn't train him as well as I should have because he woke me up this morning at 12:00, 2:30, and 5:00 am. because he couldn't get the email to send..... so back to the drawing board.

Also this week I saw a real live black widow spider when I was helping finish a rock and cement path from the orphanage to the school.  That was pretty cool I guess.