3/10/09 Woke up early and hit snooze for as long as i could Had a wonderfully hot shower then got ready to go to the kids school play/show It was in the real theatre in Cusco and was a pretty big deal All the kids in the whole school took part, from 2/3 up to 11 it was soooooo cute filmed bits of it the costumes were really good and apparently the kids had made them thenselves! Really enjoyed it STARVING by the end though We went to a restaurant near where i work for lunch with a couple of ninoska and Olenka´s friends Ninoska ordered me Pollo a la Braza which you can apparently get anywhere in peru, their fish and chips i think She ordered me a 1/4 of a chicken but when it ... read more

1/10/09 woke up all snuggly and cosy :) senor started up his rediculously loud music at 6 not happy avocado again for breakfast fought gagging just to get some veg inside me!! Walked to work and it was lovely and sunny :) Called sara on way and arranged lunch Work was busy again this morning, a little boy wandered into triaje which isnt unusual but this one was clearly special needs and he started chattering away to me and the other patients. then quite randomly he came over to me, hugged me then walked out the room all the nurses cracked up very strange spent the afternoon making cotton wool balls...for some reason they buy the cotton wool in sheets...why? i dont know they also think that after we have rolled all the cotton...its still sterile...erm.....no! ... read more

29/09/09 Well after such an exertion yesterday i had the luxuary of being dropped right to the door of my work today! YES!! was directed to Triaje...Triage in english im guessing! I was put to work straight away weighing and measuring the patients and recording their details felt useful for the first hour and half or so when it was a mad rush of around 100patients then at around 10 it went dead quiet and i ended up doing very little i chatted to the nurces who are sooooooo nice!!! i really like it here they were talking about going out dancing and the differences between here and england went home early as it was so quiet went with ruben and ninoska to pick the kids up then we dropped ruben at work we went to ... read more

Well Saturday night i met Sara in Jack´s and she brought another volunteer who is working at her school called Gigi, she´s french and speaks no english so all dinner we had to talk in spanish...pretty interesting. Well dinner was unbelivable!! I had a cheese,tomato and pesto toasty...mmmmmmmmmmmm! I also had a smoothy and milkshake and they were unreal! so tasty!! then we went to nortons in the plaza there are always little kids selling fingerpuppets and its really hard not to buy them, its become a bit of a joke now. sara said last night they were like pokemon and youve ´gotta catch them all´!!! well we had a few drinks in happy hour and decided we were too tired to go to regge night at 7 angelitos so went home. early start for the ... read more

Well i met Sara in the Plaza de Armas and we were chatting about where to go for dinner when a guy came up to us and offered us a leaflet for a restaurant called ´KM 0´ in san blas, which when we presented it supposedly gave us a free pisco sour. enticed by the though of a free drink we hicked the hill up to san blas....sooooooo breathless by the end we stopped in a few quaint little shops on the way to browse alpacca hats and scarfs and things Well we got to the restaurant, presented the voucher and.......apparently the leaflet that advertised the restaurant gave us a free drink in the bar in the plaza....we were not happy!! we decided to eat there anyway, it was a tai restaurant the menu had some ... read more