Hola This week has been quite hectic because we had 2 new people arriving and Mathilde was leaving, so we had to make lots of different school arrangements. I went with Rosa on Monday to do the Pregnant Girls project which was quite successful actually! We went to another health clinic in the area to get another list of pregnant girls, and ended up speaking to the main doctor for about an hour. He was really supportive and enthusiastic about the project and said he wanted to be kept informed of any updates. He also offered some of his staff to come and give talks to the girls about caring for their baby and to have talks with the psychologist as well. It was my last day doing anything with Rosa for Pregnant Girls, and it´s ... read more

Helloooo everyone Well you´ll all be very relieved to hear that this blog entry wont be nearly as long as previous ones due to my having done absolutely nothing this week. For the first couple of days I thought I had TB (though this was more to do with the fact I only just found out that BCG doesn´t protect you from TB than any rational conclusions, and no I´m still not over that yet.) I just had a fever and a really bad cough, exactly the same as the one Bob used to have! What a blast from the past. Anyway, it was very annoying because I only went to school on Monday this week, but I should definitely be well enough to go back tomorrow so that´s good news. Last weekend was lots of ... read more

Hello all So firstly, I´d just like to draw attention to the title. How good is that?! Came up with it all by myself. I think it sums up what I´ve been doing since my last entry pretty well! So on Thursday last week I got to go with Rosa on the first day of the Pregnant Girls´Project. Slightly mixed feelings about it now, given how unorganised the run up to it was and what we actually did on the day. We seemed to spend most of our time on the bus to be honest. Rosa is, from what I can gather, something of an all round Social Assistant type person. I think she is involved with the local authorities, but does actually work for Bruce as well. She seems to know everyone and everything that ... read more

Hello all! So I arrived eventually after about 17 hours of planes, and so far the peruvians are lovely, and everyone in the flat is very nice, though all more in tune with the whole travelling thing than I am at the moment. I'm living in a flat with about 12 other volunteers, all between 18 and 29 bar 2 Scottish ladies in their 60s! My spanish is being tested quite a bit at the school because the kids dont know how to explain things in different ways, which is funny because I thought their spanish would be so basic I'd get it straight away! I've been put in a school which is really quite far away from the centre of town, like a 35 minute bus journey. I go with another volunteer called Lorenzo who ... read more