At the moment I am stuck in the city because Bernabe, he owns and old beattle car, has broken down and we are waiting on the mechanic. In the meantime I thought i would write a little more in my blog.

My travels to the jungle last weekend was amazing. When driving there you will meet mountians that are trying to reach the heavens. There are raod clean up crews tht must never be out of a job because every few miles you can see evidence of a rock slide. At one point we drove by a boulder on the road that was bigger than our van. ekks. The jungle looks as if it is trying t tame the mountains by pulling them back down. The scenery is incredible.

Today, all of hte volunteers and I went with the orphanage staff and children to a very large hill just outside of huancayo. AS you walk up there are 12 statues representing the final days oif Jesus. At the top is a huge cross that can be seen from the city. It was a fun experience with the kids and someone brought a guitar that we played as we walked up. I felt the altitude again today. haha.

Yesterday, I made some great progress with Ramiro. I made flashcards with very basic spanish words and I had him put his hand on the word that i spoke. We just worked on the word "Bano" but by the end of the 45 mintues he could identify it without a problem. Next i plan on teaching him some more words. After that i need to work on transferring his newly learned words into everyday life. that will be interesting.

The Casa project is going great. the kids are full of energy but also eager to learn english, well most of them are. Soon one of the staff memebers will start pulling the children aside one by one to go over a questionnaire with them. I helped write it with the other staff. I may have tlaked about this before but i´m excited to get it in the works. Then sometime in the future Expand Peru will start visiting the home sof the children. So with the questionnaire, working with kids two hours a day, and visiting their homes, it is our hope that we will be able to dramatically improve the childrens lives. we shall see what happens.

Adios