en Peru

Oye people,
hope all is well on the home front! So i am in a place called Yanacoto ahora that is cerca de Chaclacayo that is cerca de Lima, if you want to know. I am sitting in an internet cafe thinking of what to write, well i have been making lots of new friends, there are 47 people in my group, Peru 12 and the training is pretty intense, the one afternoon that we had off so far has been for meeting our host families, whom we will live with for the next 11 weeks. My family is great, el papa, Teofilo, works in construction building houses and what not and la mama, Brigida, is the ama de casa and cleans houses once a week in Chaclacayo. Teo is the director of a soccer team for which both their sons play, and i went to their game yesterday, and they won!!! Suerte because Brigida said she will be happy if they won, since it was the first day, i really didn´t want it to be a bummer!! After the game, we watched the dance of the region, Danza de las tijeras, (dance of the scissors), and two jovenes with scissors danced a sort of breakdance routine, very acrobatic and very dangerous i´m sure! in fact, my host sis said i would probably cut my head off if i tried it, jajajaja. So it´s a very big fam. there are 9 of us counting me in a three bedroom house and it´s PC policy that I have my own room, so the 8 others share two bedrooms. i feel bad about this but that is the way it goes, i suppose, what can i do?

so the training staff warned us not to eat food off the calle (street) and the first day with the host family, after the soccer game, guess what i did, that´s right ate anticucho (schiskabob, sp) off the street, which i was told is cow heart, but it tasted just like beef, and a couple of pieces were a bit rare. im feeling fine now so i hope my stomach stays fuerte.

well i talked with my director and found out i will be a technical advisor to the other water and sanitation volunteers who don´t have the technical background as me, which means i´ll probably be doing a lot of travelling to other people´s sites to work with them. this was exciting to hear, and i can´t wait to start. but for now i just need to focus on training, and hopefully i will swear in as an official PC volunteer on November 28, 4 days after my birthday.

well all, i am going to post some pictures and maybe a video of the danza de las tijeras if i can figure that out, but más tarde, as i need to go eat dinner (green pasta espaghetti) with my host family right now.

ciao y besos a todos