Blogs from Ayacucho, Peru, South America - page 11

Hello friends from all around! We are compltely exhausted. Today we have taken the kids by the river. It s sounds quite simple like that, but imagine this. There is one professor and five volonteers -including marion-, walking for two hours in the wild with about 30 kids. Meanwhile a bus and 20 others (the smallest) went directly there with 2 volonteers -incluing em-. Now, this is nothing like europe or america where kids must be watched and kept under control... We climbed and hiked and walked by the road in the middle of the mountain, kids running all over the place. We saw donkeys and cows (the kids jumpe on me sudenly cuz i had a red headband and they thought the bull was gonna get me! I cant belive we didnt lose any kids!! ... read more

Hola todos -blog is two days old for lill technical problems... oh frenchies out there watch this great new president we have http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3220,36-921248,0.html ) Alors. Very eventful days have just passed. well, since yesterday really but it seems ages ago already. oh, we re wondering why when we write a blog in french, we get almost all comments from english, spanish, australien and american peeps. weirdos. Our time in the orphanage went really well, taking away any of our attempts at structure or organization. Our help with homework was hillarious as emilie could not explain divisions in español (and kind of forgot how to explain it in any other language as well) and marion was dealing with a dislexic dorris-like kiddo (ok, dorris is the fish in nemo for all those who didnt get the ... read more

Hello the wolrd out there We have just arrived to Ayacucho. The sun is so warm up at 2700m, and the air is finally purer than in crouded Lima. We have been extreemeñy lucky for our first two days to have met the perfect guides, two french travelers Manuella et David here for 4 months and a year, and initiated us to the peruvian way. Local buses, little restaurants, menu translation courses so that we didnt end up eating guinea pigs and Ceviche (raw fish in lemon with pepers and oignons, excellent for the soul, terrible for the stomac), well not yet anyways. Stomacs ok (i m sure parents are concerned), somehow... So far we find eating in lill local places and grabbing tea, cakes or nuts quite easy, and havent felt like streets were ... read more

May 11th I woke early to catch a long bus ride. I wasn´t feeling so great, probably due to not a great night´s sleep and maybe the two really weird ¨Pisco Sours¨, the national alcoholic drink I had last night with the Stanford people. We drove down along the coast, very desert-like, and then over into the mountains. I found a very decent hotel and went to get dinner as I was exhausted and hungry! I asked for water, but for some reason the waiter insisted on bringing me what all the locals drink (chi chi) - corn beer. It looks like red wine, served warm. It was pretty nasty, but I felt bad that the waiter had brought it to me for free so I drank at least half of it anyways. Near the ... read more

Hello people , Since a couple of months i’m building on my project Bookingbox. The project has lots of different sides , its evolving every day and you can follow it all online on our websites. When i arrived in Peru i had only one goal ; getting my websites online. After a couple of weeks in a hostal i decided too rent my own place , i found a old colonial house with 2 gardens and 5 rooms , a great place for an art gallery , a social club (garden lounge) and 5 rooms. I found a first customer ; Jan , the coock of the Dutch resto - hostal “el Gringo” , who was searching for a room ; he rented the blue room , to have a relax place for himself. Claudio ... read more