Blogs from Trujillo, Peru, South America - page 15

Hello all So I´ve finished my first week of school and had my first weekend here, and I´m starting to settle in quite well. I know all the kids´names now! But I´m finding my Spanish inadequate in many ways at school; for instance I don´t know how to tell them off very well which makes me feel terrible if they´ve hurt someone and all I can do is console that person and not properly resolve the situation. What has struck me though is that at this age they really are just like children anywhere in the world. There are some who are bored and so misbehave, some who want to learn and some who just are cheeky; just like all groups of children. Their outlook will start to change though when they get sightly older and ... read more

Hi everyone! I am preparing to leave Trujillo soon for Lima. I´ve tried emailing through sdplains but it hasn´t worked. We are having a fun time, but I am ready to get home. I miss all of you! Trujillo is a great city and we visited Chan Chan yesterday. Our friends were given counterfeit money there, however and then when we went to a market on the beach later, their wallet was stolen! I´ll tell you more later. It makes us all a lot more cautious than ever! No more minutes on the calling card. I can´t believe how cheap this trip has been! Anyway, I need to finish packing. Love to you all, Mandy... read more

My purpose for spending close to five weeks in Trujillo has primarily been to work with the Bruce Peru Organization. The group´s mission is to solve the problem of lack of education among Peru´s poor (this applies to South America in general, actually). This of problem is reportedly more serious than indicated by national figures, as many of Peru´s impoverished children are never registered with the state. For information about Bruce Peru, go to bruceperu.org. Here I am going to describe my experience day to day, rather than the structure and accomplishments of the organization. A Typical Day. On weekdays, volunteers wake up just before 8 A.M. to have breakfast and then head out to schools. I have been to two schools so far, in the barrios of Alto Trujillo and New Jerusalem. The method of ... read more

Ok... so after Chiclayo I took a relatively easy 4.5 hour bus ride south to Trujillo and stayed in an empty hostel which was surprisingly run primarily by a 12 year old girl. I was in a four bed bunk bed dorm room all alone, so in the cold evenings i just used all the blankets off the other beds aswell. Within Trujillo I took a one day spanish language tour with a bus load of peruvian tourists, there wasnt an english option available so i made do. By the end of the tour I was a pro at sniffing out any english langauge groups at the ruins or museums and tagging on to the end to listen to the info about the ruins etc that i was looking at. On the tour we first visited ... read more

After 24 hours on a bus, we finally made it to Trujillo in Peru. Only spent a day here really. Visited an archeologica site called Chan Chan, went to Huanchaco which has a famous beach restaurant serving wicked seafood but it was closed, so Boucs and I purchased som little live baby crabs from a local and decided to use them as bait to go fishing - didn't catch shit! We managed to find another place though where we had some grilled fish covered with prawns and salsa for about $8 each. It was then off to the bus station to catch another bus (cos we love them so much!) to Lima. This one was well comfortable, got blankets and pillows and everything - which we knicked of course! ... read more