Feels like ages since I last wrote about anything, but then it's been a pretty busy week this week so I'll make up for it...
So I thought now that all the kids are in the aldea 24/7 it would be a really intense couple of months, but turns out that the aldea organises classes for majority of the older kids everymorning till lunch time which gets them out of our hair for a while. It's actually pretty cool, I'm half jealous of them-they get acting/dancing/singing/cooking/manicure/hairdresser and like 3 different types of music lessons! Alex made friends with the piano teacher so we've managed to let him give us the keyboard after the lessons and keep it in our house so we can use it too. Definitely didn't realise how much I'd actually missed playing the piano until I tried to do anything and couldn't remember a thing! We even got to keep it over the weekend so it's got it's own permanent little place in our loungey room :)
A few days after we got back it was Dansia's birthday-the oldeset girl in the Aldea who's now 18.It was exciting but at the same time it brings the time when she has to leave even closer, she will be going to live with her godmother, but typical Peru she's still actually in the Aldea and they don't even know when she's actually going to leave! On her birthday we got all the older girls to help decorate our casa and then watched films with them, it was really nice and I think nice for her to spend some time with just the girlies. Last week we took Danisa into town with us too on our mission to buy a dvd player for us/the aldea after we leave. We did drag her round quite a few boring shops but she also got treated to a new top and an ice cream! I had a really really enjoyable time with her because when she's in the aldea I just see her as another one of the kids when she's actually our age. Hopefully once she has left the aldea we'll be able to meet up with her and see how she's getting on, maybe even take her sister out to meet her too to give them a chance to catch up.
Our other exciting news is that we got 4 new volunteers last night!! Standardly in the aldea they didn't actually tell us anything. The first we heard of it was on Saturday morning when one of the tías turned up outside our house with some of the kids armed with all their cleaning equipment...Turns out there are 2 boys and 2 girls they're all from Lima and willl be staying with us for 5 weeks. They only stay in the aldea Friday to Monday and then during the week they work in a school in the jungle-basically what the 2 spanish girls were doing who were already in the aldea when we arrived back in August. It feels seriously weird having more people in our casa-especially guys, definitely going to take some getting used to but they all seem very nice! I'm hoping it will give us more of a chance to meet some other people through the people they make friends with in their jungle school but also just to be able to chat to people our age will make a huge difference for me, and probably improve my spanish a lot more too! So even if it was very unexpected fingers crossed it will be a massive improvement.
It feels like we've had a pretty busy week this week, I think we've both been more full on with the kids which makes a massive difference with your energy levels. We went out for a really nice meal on Friday night to get away, we ended up in town in the middle of the daily rainstorms absolutly soaking wet looking for somewhere to eat but it was a gorgeous meal! Then today is our first day of proper sun in a while, it feels like it did back before we went on holiday so we're off to our treetop hostel with the pool and yummy coffee.
Hasta lugeo todos :) xx
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