thepharleyboy

Hey Everyone, I am terrible at keeping up with this travel blog thing. I guess I will start with an update of what I am doing now. I got a job teaching English at a school called Santa Margarita. I am teaching English to first grade and a couple classes to kinder and prekinder. I really like my job. The kids are great. It is kinda hard sometimes though because there are 33 kids in each class and they don't speak much English. I have been teaching at this school since February and my contract goes until December. I have not decided yet if I want to stay another year, come home, or go somewhere else. I go back and forth a lot. After a lot of time and money I finally got my work visa ... read more

It is pretty rainy today so I have some more time to try to put up pictures. It is Three Kings day or something though so I went and saw a little play in the Plaza de Armas. Also people are lighting off more fireworks. I guess there are a lot of holidays here in January. Well hopefully here are a bunch of pictures from my last week here.... read more

For those of you that don't know, I decided to come live in the mountains of Peru at a place called Huancavelica for a month during my summer vacation. I wanted to get out of Lima for a little since I am going to be there another year and I don't have enough money to just travel, so I looked for volunteer opportunities where I could basically live for free. It turns out the school I was teaching at helps out this town of Huancavelica through it's priests, so I had the opportunity to come up and live in the seminary and teach some English. Huancavelica is a small city of about 40,000 people in what is called the sierra or mountain region of Peru. It is at about 12,000 feet and is surrounded by mountains. ... read more

So I moved into my own house. I couldn't take living out of a suit case anymore. I found a really good deal on a place. It is a house that a guy just rents out rooms to foreigners that are working or studying or whatever. The place is only $200 dollars a month and it includes all utilities, which is really good for the area I am in. I live with a French couple and two French girls who are studying, an American guy who is doing about the same that I am doing, and a woman from Wales who is studying Spanish. Everyone is pretty cool, but I haven't hung out with them much yet. We are all going to Ica this weekend together though. I am posting some pictures of the house. I ... read more

Hey, I am goint to try to post a bunch of pictures. These pictures are form the end of Christmas break to the end of March. It includes pictures of when my mom and uncle came to visit. I do not have pictures from semana santa yet. To update everyone on the end of our Christmas break. We hiked a volcano and camped one night below the crater. You will see pictures of this. Then we went back to Leon, Nicaragua. We had to be back at school on Tuesday. The NFL playoffs were on Sunday. My Dolphins were playing and my roommate Kevin´s Eagles were playing on Sunday afternoon. We originally planned to make it halfway back on Sunday afternoon, but we both wanted to watch our games so we decided to stay in Leon ... read more