June 16

Not enough sleep seems to be my new normal but it still isn't fun! I had to wake up at the horrible time of six o'clock and could barely drag myself out of bed to eat breakfast with Uziel, Katia, and Alison (Joyce, the lucky duck, gets to sleep in until 7:30 - or later!). Uziel made us some fried eggs which we had on chapla which is traditional Peruvian bread that we've been having all this time. It is super puffy but not actually that fluffy.
At the school we helped the music teacher. We sang "Try Everything" by Shakira and I also played Fur Elise on the keyboard. The kids loved it! We ended up following the music teacher to the next class as well and we taught them "Twinkle twinkle" in English and the Cups song from Pitch Perfect. It was so fun and the kids loved it so much! The music teacher also said we can visit his parents house and play their violins which would be awesome!

Teaching "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

After lunch with Uziel we went to INABIF where we taught the kids to make crocodiles with their hands. We also let them ride on our backs and also grabbed their hands and spun them around with their feet off the ground. It's superfun for them but such a workout! And after you do it once there is no stopping the relentless mob of eager kids! By the end my hair was like a bird's nest from all the kids' hands.

The kids at INABIF pull out another fantastic hairstyle

We went back to the restaurant and helped the family shelling peas. When Mama Dorris saw my hair she practically fainted, but then committed herself to straightening it out. She was still working on it when we had finished with the peas! I chatted to a woman from the restaurant, Soledad, and tried to speak some Quechua but I just couldn't get my tongue around the words! Alison could say the words really well.

Alison, Joan-Pierre, Katia, one of the restaurant worker's kids, and Mama Dorris

The biggest carrots EVER

Soledad accompanied us to the market to buy some food for dinner and some pom-poms for Katia's class, and we saw one of the children from the school which was really nice. The market was packed and noisy and the smell from the meat stall was pretty bad. The markets here are more rustic than those in Cusco.

We dwarf Katia. She calls us her kids even though we are all sooo different.

Alison and I are ALWAYS matching, it's becoming a thing.

Us and Soledad

A cool arch

Yet another church

Market!

We get locked into the market...

Supermarket with Katia and Uziel

Joyce finds her soulmate

Smells like home

For dinner we made hamburgers which took a while because Katia and Uziel have only one two-burner camping stove at the moment. Our patties turned out a bit cumbly but we added lettuce, tomato, squeaky cheese, egg, and fried platino which was delicious! Even though it was hard to eat it was soooo good! We went to bed feeling full and happy.