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I have a lot to catch up on it seems, but the internet has been down here for a couple of days so updating has been tough!Ok, so last time I wrote was thursday, a week ago today. I´m not sure what I wrote about thursday, but what I can say is that we had our environment class in the morning, which went really well, and our photography class at night, which also went well! After photography, we went to the plaza to meet Tessa, a volunteer from April who´s term crossed into ours, so we spent the first week together. anyways, she was in Cusco for a bit so we met up and went to a little cafe in the plaza adn then to Mama Africa, where we met 5 other Canadians! Who all just graduated from Dal! How crazy is that?Friday we went to the airport at 1:00 to pick up Lupe... I´m not sure if I wrote about it or not, but Lupe has never seen cusco and she´s from Peru, so that´s a pretty big deal, but she just couldn´t aford it, so the five of us and Katie put some money together to buy her a ticket, and last weekend she came down! We hung out with her during the day, and at night Mel hung out with her while we were supposed to go to a play with our Peruvian friends. Unfortunately Alex had other plans. Alex is what we named Jess´parasite...friday night she got really sick and had to go to a clinic, where they found out she had a little parasite, which meant no sugar for the next three days while they worked him out of her system. So instead of the play, we went to a little cafe Kent had recommended called The Muse, and it was awesome! We got HUGE juices that tasted like heaven and the beat cheapest food ever. It was wonderful really!Saturday was the city tour, so the four of us, Mel, and Lupe hopped on a bus that took us on a 5 hour tour of the city, seeing many sights but having the worst tour guide of life! His moto was ´no time for fun´... every sight he rushed us for no reason! hahaha but we had a great time because together, we are a little crazy and therefore always fun. However, being not a fan of fun, the tourguide seemed to take an immediate disliking to us, haha.
Sunday morning Celine, Kels and I got up at 4:30 to bring Lupe to the train station so she could get to Machu Picchu, and practiced our dance moves while she waited in line. After that, I went back to sleep until church at 7:30, and then came back to the house to meet our Peruvian friends Brian and Fabricio who were taking us to Tipon, an irrigation ruin-y cite outside the city. This was much better than our tour with the crazy man the day before, and a really beautiful place. After Tipon, we went out for cuy. If you don´t know what cuy is, it´s the Peruvian specialty... guinea pig. So we went to this crazy outdor place where a woman threw a guinea pig in a furnace, cut off it´s head, andserved it to us. FEET STILL ON! It was nuts! But anyways, we tried it and it tasted slightly like chicken. I know people always say that, but this time it was true! But very weird, so I could only eat a little bit. After that we went back to the house, and since it was father´s day there was a big barbeque outside, which was awesome! So basically we just ate and played jenga haha. HOWEVER when everyone was eating, the radio was on in the background, and Celine and I had been trying to think of a certain Brian Adam´s song allllll day and it was driving us NUTS and all of a sudden it came on the radio in Spanish! So, as a reflex, I yelled CELINE!!!! and everyone stopped and looked at me and Kels couldn´t stop laughing and I just got really quiet hahaha. That night, the six of us (Kels, Celine, Jess, Brian, Fab, and I) went back to the Muse and played pictionary.
Monday. We volunteered at St. Juan again in the morning, then had Spanish lesson with Jorge at a cafe down the road from our house. That night we had intense dance lesson with Marcela´s whole group, because the parade was only a week away! So we practiced the night away.
Tuesday we went into Chocco for our community clean up day, and at first there were only three kids there! So we were a little nervous, but by the end there was probably 20! We cleaned and cleaned and then washed up and then came home for supper before heading back in for our photography project. The youth had finished their biographies, and were so cute about them! I love them! Finally, we came back home for more dance lessons.
Wednesday we got up and went to the clinic, and it was finally nice enough to take the kids outside! It was so cute, we had bubbles and they were fascinated. After clinic, we came home for lunch and then were supposed to go into Chocco to plant trees... but we got a phone call from Jorge saying that they were having administrative problems with the government and we couldn´t get the trees yet! So we had to move that to next week, and instead went to check out a little market in downtown Cusco. We had some celebratory ice cream, because Alex was finally gone as well! That night we had more dance lessons, and we all feel pretty ready for the parade... it´s going to be so crazy! Angel always says we´ll be the spectacle of the parade, because no white people have ever done it in Peruvian dress before.
This morning we got up and planned our environment class... we were reviewing the four R´s and sorting, and then teaching about the life cycle of a tree haha. After our lesson at the school (which was crazy, the teacher just was like ´ok, i´m going home... the class is yours´... and the director finally came around to us!) we came home for lunch and did lauuuundry. Tonight, we are meeting with the youth again to collect their cameras, and then going with our Peruvian friends to the GRUPO 5 concert! HAHAHA! They are the biggest Peruvian band, and sing just about every song on the radio, so we know them half well. Anyways, the concert is only 10 soles (about 4 dollars) so we are definately going! I´ll let you know how it turns out...

Anyways, we´re square now, and I´ll try to update faster next time!