friday 20th feb

Hi to all, it is raining here! I'm wet and full of mud because we decided to go off for dinner in Sabandia - a far off place in the valley, where you can't really get a taxi back. No one had a phone but they did have a quad bike, so Peter drove and i sat on the back, getting splattered by mud. The dude we payed 5 soles to get to a main road to get a taxi ran behind us. He didn't last too long as he got splatter in mud and was let behind. We stopped a taxi in the pouring rain but Peter had a 50 sole note only. But half way down the trip we got this changed in to smaller coins, like 100 & 50 cents..... hahaha..

A good end to a rather stressfull day. The boys did not obey - they were to go on a tour - there's more to this, but i can't be stressed to retell.. But the boys are not going tomorrow to Sabandia to enjoy the quad bikes and horse riding..

I'm trying to think what we did yesterday..

the picture on the right is of the day trip before some boys were in trouble.. we took them to 2 museums, one of Peru Arequipa and other of pre-inca stuff. This trip and many others were possible because of your donations.
The picture is of three of the groups: older girls, younger girls, and the boys group i'm a tutor with. The younger boys group was not in this picture as they were still in the museum.



These days we have been going with the boys on individual trips, giving them 15 soles to spend. The plan is to go with a tutor. It's like a mentoring project. The boys get a bit of their time, and by going out with a tutor they also may open up more about stuff they want to talk about..

Peter is doing a great job with this. He has been taking some to a playstation shop to play and cinema and go-carting.. I took a boy, Jorge, to meet up with his granny because he has not really seen her or other people from his family.. This was quite a tour and took some finding, going from one family member to another and crossing all part of town.. eventually we did find her. She bought him and his younger brother that did not come with us a big bag of fruit.. After this we went into town and He wanted to buy some ornamental fish.. so we got a wee fish tank and two fish... but the last days his fish have died. so we have got two more.. He is 11 and really loves and is proud for his small family.. He has named the fish Peter and J-d.. the J-d fish died the other day.. i think it drowned..!