I'm starting to feel the lack of sleep, I always seem to be the first one up and the last one to go to sleep. The days are busy, and tiring. Today it felt especially so because I didn't get breakfast at the Kindergarten, and so spent the morning hungry.
However it was teacher appreciation day today, and the kids gave me the cutest card complete with a drawing of me! How awesome! I didn't really expect anything considering I just arrived and how little I do!
The card and a pen that I was also given!
Look how perfect these rock slides are!
And the completely accurate drawing of me - especially the grey hair :)
I'm starting to realize that toddlers are actually more like adults than I give them credit for, we all just want love and attention don't we?
Benyamin with a milk mousy ache! Could he get any more adorable?
We learnt musical instruments today and I think my ears are still ringing! I say we because I was learning all the names of the instruments just as much as the students!
The kids learning musical instruments!
When I got back home my mother María had cut her finger pretty badly but luckily we have three Med students in the house! If there was ever a house to get hurt in it's my host house! Then Hunter came home and she had burnt her finger pretty badly at the Kindergarten using a hot glue gun, so now they have matching injuries, who knew working at a kindergarten could be so dangerous!
In the afternoon me and German Caroline went to visit some Incan ruins just outside the city. We couldn't get over the name though, Saqasyhuaman (pronounced sexy woman)! After we got very lost heading to the bus we went up, up, up.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw the ruins! Wow they were just stunning! At first me and Caroline had the place practically to ourselves and it was so cool exploring the narrow passages and the walls with absolutely massive stones!
The massive stone walls
Our shadows :)
Me and the sprawling city of Cusco
Caroline actually teaches art back in Germany and is an awesome photographer, and she took some amazing photos!
Caroline taking a photo
A photo Caroline took
Me taking a selfie of Caroline taking a selfie. Selfiception! When I came here, I was coming alone, and I had to put all my trust in the faith that I would meet people, and I wouldn't be alone the whole time, and it paid off! Sometimes the scariest things to do have the best results :)
The best part about the ruins was the rockslides though, they were these huge natural slides that formed in some of the rock faces around the ruins. They are really slippery and you go really fast! Caroline and I found this out after we landed hard at the bottom of our first slide, ow!
Look how perfect these rock slides are!
I thought Caroline was pretty shy at first, but today I saw she is actually pretty adventurous.
Caroline and me in front of the Jesus statue I saw from the Cristo Blanco church. Here's to new friends.
Love love love the llamas here!!! Caroline took this photo too, just presume if a photo looks really good she took it.
Another amazing photo by Caroline. Although the kids look really happy in this photo, we paid them to take their photo, and they pretended to play for our camera. It's a sad reminder of how dehumanizing the tourist industry can be for locals, who will do anything that tourists will pay for. Even kids as young as these siblings know how to get money from us foreigners. I hope by volunteering in the kindergarten here I can help stop this cycle of poverty, and help kids like these have more of a childhood and not have to worry so much about money. Education fights poverty.
That evening we decided to go salsa dancing again. Since being here I've gotten a close up experience of what a college students life is like, living with three of them. Tonight it was an insight into their drinking. Before we even went Tommy, American Caroline and a volunteer from a different house Colleen decided to do some pre-gaming by playing a drinking game. Caroline quickly became very drunk and Me and Hunter quickly realized that we would be babysitting the older kids.
As we walked into the salsa club, the flickering colorful lights filled me with excitement. I eagerly went out on the floor to dance, but sadly found my partner very drunk. Even worse he kept trying to get me to dance with him again for the next hour, how annoying! However soon enough I lost him and my whole night turned around, and became one of the most fun nights I've ever had! I got to try out my newly learnt salsa moves and found myself to be reasonably good at it, how awesome! Then after eleven things got really crazy, the energy rose, the music got louder, and we all had a lot of fun!
We went home around 1:00, Germany had joined us by this point and so all six of us piled into one taxi, me laying across everyone in the back seat, what a crazy, fun night!
Here we all are outside the salsa place. Me, then German Caroline, Hunter, U.S. Caroline, and Tommy!
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