Eager as a Beaver

That is what I concider myself for writing on this two days in a row. Eager as a beaver. But I figure I should take advantage while I can, because I don´t know if we´ll have internet in Cusco.

It´s 4:00 here, and Kelsey and Jessie (new girl who arrived this morning) are napping, so I figured it would be the opportune time to write a bit. I´ll start with the people:
Kelsey is of course the crazy Anne impersonator that I came here with.
Jessie, Melanie, and Tessa are other volunteers in the house. Three more girls are arriving tonight, but Melanie leaves tonight to go back home and Tessa leaves for her placement next week. Jessie is coming to Cusco with Kelsey and I at the end of the month.
Anna Maria is one of the coordinators, and she doesn´t live at the house but her office is here so we eat meals with her and see a lot of her. So far, she´s super nice.
Kent is the other coordinator, but he is in bolivia right now. He should arrive back at the house tonight though.
Lupe does the cooking and cleaning in the house, and she is so sweet. She is probably 50, and just a pleasant short little Peruvian woman. She knows very little english, but tries to talk with us and is always smiling. Melanie and Tessa can comunicate with her, and so I can´t wait until we learn Spanish and can too.
Rosario..or Rosaria? is our Spanish teacher. She´s gone away for the weekend with Tessa, so we won´t really get to know her until Monday.

The house is adorable. It´s so Peruvian! The walls are yellow and brown and green, all pastels, and rounded and lovely! The windows don´t have screens, just like, gate things so people and birds don´t come in. They don´t really have a problem with bugs. We can get up on the roof, and apparently it´s just like the one in Dominican, very concrete but gets a ton of sun so it´´s a nice escape. Our room has three sets of bunk beds in it, all with brightly coloured sheets and pillows, and the window overlooks the street with trees growing orange flowers and cacti... it´s awesome. There are two computers, one in Anna Maria´s office and one in the dining room that gives you crazy shocks! No one will touch the screen becuase it´s basiclly a suicide mission. Bad news.

Last night we went to sleep around 9:00, because even though it´s as hot as our summers here, it´s winter and so it gets dark around 6 or 7. We slept until 9 this morning, because we were suuuper tired still, and then had some breakfast with the girls. We hung out on the roof until lunch, then took a walk into the city and to the beach, down this crazy stone staircase that was probably 20000 steps haha. It wassoo hot too, which is nice still. Anyways, after that we just came home and that is where I am now! Jessie, Kelsey adn I are trying to book flights to Cusco but the website is Spanish so hopefully we get there! haha! Anyways, see you all in a few months!
:)