Today was a very fun day! We got to sleep in which was nice. We woke up and showered for the first time. We thought our family had hot water but they don’t so we are going to have to get used to cold showers. After we showered we went on a walk with our 8 year old sister Gabriela who has been absolutely amazing at helping us with our Spanish. We walked down to the river from the road than walked back to the town up a mountain, great workout! Lunch was at 1 so we just talked with our host family until lunch which was lentils, rice and fish. The food is not bad our host mom is so giving she gives us a lot of food. It truly is amazing how these people have nothing and they give you everything they have. After lunch we came back to the house and fell asleep for about 3 hours the altitude and travel really wore us out. We are about to go to a pizza party with all the volunteers. We are excited to meet everyone! Tomorrow we are going to a fiesta with our host family where there is going to be bull fighting! We are very excited! As far as the language goes I already feel a little better about communication. I am talking to the children a lot and this is helping out incredibly! We have to run but the view from our window is several Inca ruins and the Andes mountains…..we have pictures but they do not even describe the view.
P.S. Our family is Catholic so we will be going to mass with them tomorrow!
LOVE AND MISS YOU
Megan
Sounds like a great day. At mass tonight I said to Dad I wondered what your church would be like on Sunday. Everything sounds so beautiful, the people, your family, the scenery. You are very lucky girls. We miss you and so proud of you. Traveling to South America at such a young age and gelping people less fortunate. You go girls!. Glad you are catching up on sleep.
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