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Published: July 28th 2009
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I have to start journaling in the short breaks we get! Too much stuff! We started the mornign with self led yoga, which meant the I did a sun salute adn some sit ups and push ups. Not really yoga, but there you go. Oh, and we had an adventure getting there! So Laura wakes us up to go, and I´m slow in the mornings, so they leave before moe. I hear geese screaming, a few shrieks and a lot of excited chatter as they return to our second floor porch thing. I go out, and they tell me that they´ve been attacked by an alpaca, well, charged, and then the geese chased them. Honestly, I didn´t believe them. Geese yes, they are mean, so they prob did chase them, but they´re birds. And the alpaca...?They´re both city girls. However, they tried again and he did! Rushed them with his head down adn stuff. Safety in numbers didn´t really work either, though I did get to the Yoga room just because when he ran at us I bet on making forward to the stairs instead of back to the rooms. Anita had to come and chase him away with rocks. Apparently
Fishing fleet in Lima
A little fleet of fishing boats in Lima, on our walk to Patti´s office he was mistreated as a baby, before Pocha got him, and now he´s tethered all the time, to prevent just such an occasion. It was a fun morning though! So I did a sun salute to teh sun, which rose over Hualcan, the peak we can see from here and then had breakfast (homemade yogurt, a granola made of local grains-again a home made mix- and fruit). Pocha gave us a tour of the place, which she built herself. Most interesting to me was the solar oven and stoves. Very effecient and easy to make, particularily the oven. There are geese, ducks, chickens, alpacas (not all of them charge lol), guinea pigs (cuy), 5 milk cows, a young steer, adn a really sweet, old yellow lab, but she kinda smells. I feel very much at home. We did a mapping excersize of the rancho, which is about 12 acres. Ther is a huge, jungle like garden, a forest where she grew the trees to make the houses here, a very cool waste plant (a HUGE garden of calla lilies where the sewage comes out, basically) and nesting geese. Coca tea is a must right now, for energy. After the mapping
we had lunch, finished drawing the map, had conversational spanish tests (I had to talk!) adn then spanish class until fourish. I´m doing a whole lot better than I thought I would! At five we had an intro photo sharing thing and talked about photography and anthropology, and the role that photography is playing in the world right now, sort of. Dinner-pizza, banana bread, chocolate cake, more tea. I am exausted! ¿Que mas? Fed a spider from our room to a chicken. Saw a teeny guinea fowl thing in the garden. Lots of cool plants there- passion fruit, limes, lemons, melons, squash. Haven´t even seen the orchard yet. Might spend Sunday in teh kitchen with Pocha, after market.
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