Starting Week 2

This weekend a few of the volunteers offered up their Sunday afternoon to go to a large house called Casa de Panchita. It´s a place for the many young maids of the Lima upper class to go and spend their one day off. My self and two of my roomates were teaching english to a group of about 10 girls who were anywhere from 17 to 28 years old. We used flash cards to increase their vocabulary and taught them the days of the week, months, and a few things they really wanted to learn, like how to say ¨I love you.¨ It was odd to see women around the same age as myself not having any hope of advancing into a better career than being a servant. The gap between the poor and the rich in Lima is as wide as I´ve seen in the world. It was time well spent and at the end of the lesson we exchanged emails to be able to practice our english/spanish.

I aquired some coloring books and crayons from some people in the volunteer house who were not able to use them and brought them with me to Deporte y Vida today. They were a hit. It was amazing to see such excitement over a simple thing like some crayons and a coloring book. These children don´t take anything for granted and are so thankful to have whatever they can obtain. We colored for hours and I took pictures of the kids. It was hard to keep hands off the camera because they all wanted to look at each picture I took, directly after I took it. I got some heart-warming shots though, and I can´t wait to share them.