Well the first group of volunteers has finally come to a close!!! It was a really great group to start with, but I really, as I already said, did not realize how exhausting this internship was going to be! There are a lot of behind-the-scenes tasks that I never accounted for when I was just a volunteer myself! I worked both weeks of this team to learn about everything that goes on in case I would ever have to be in charge (unlikely). But for the rest of the teams of the summer, I will work one week, and have every other week off, which is exciting, because working every week would wear me out in about a month!!! My blisters have turned into callouses on my feet from walking back and forth across the orphanage, so now i feel like a real veteran. My spanish is also getting better and better every day. I can sucessfully roll my rrrrrrrr's almost every time now, and some people (maybe they are being nice) ask if I am from here. So it seems like my limeñan accent is also improving. One of the little girls I have worked with for the past 3 years said to me the other day "When you used to come you spoke English, but now you speak in Spanish!!!" from a 7 year old, that means alot to me!!!
Aside from work, I have met a lot of great people. I had a little "reunión" to inaugurate my apartment with some of Mili's and her brother Carlos' friends, and I learned a lot about peruvian indie music, among other things, and of course, my peruvian slang is skyrocketing!!! haha. I have learned about ceviche, pisco, aji a la gallina, and the other night treated myself to an exquisite Peruvian gastronomy dinner at Astrid & Gaston, the "best restaurant in South America" (www.astridygaston.com .... coming soon to San Francisco!!) which was a palate of peruvian spices that blew me away. The food here is delicious. Mili and Carlos' mom has made a deal with me that for every kilo I gain, she will lose, so in September we will have to see who wins!!!
Also, I have some funny baby videos to post (finally) and there are photos of my first 2 weeks at
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here some cute babies on a slide
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