Hola!!!Wow, what an amazing two days! Yesterday we began our work in Kusi at the foot of Huascaran, the second highest peak in the Andes, and the highest in Peru!
We were warmly welcomed to the school in Kusi with a special ceremony. The kids marched out, all military like, and filed into ranks. Then they raised the Peruvian flag and sang their national anthem followed by their town´s anthem. The kids were so cute as they marched out! Afterwards, each grade came and sang a song or did a choreography. Some students recited poems. And now for the best part: They taught us all how to dance a-la-Peru....starting with all of our boys! It was so much fun!
Next we shared our dramas, The Champion and the Chair and taught them two songs. Then, out to play! We went over to a small little soccer field. The boys wore themselves out carrying the children around on their backs like horses, while the girls played duck duck goose. We all played with the kids for over an hour.
While the students were sharing their drama, a little boy, probably only 4, came over to me. He stood a few feet away and just looked at me...I invited him over to sit in my lap....he hestitated, but then came over. HE WAS SOOOOO CUTE!! He didn´t say anything. He just sat in my there and stole my heart.
Following lunch: TIME FOR WORK! The boys carried rocks to build a pathway for Kusi, while the girls began making adobe! Some mixed the mud and straw with their feet, others carried the mud in wheelbarrows, and others made the bricks under the supervision of an expert adobe maker, Filipe. Our first few bricks didn´t quite make the grade, but after that, we were practically ready to build our own houses out of adobe. Score for the day: 5 bad bricks and 50 good ones. Laura E. was especially adept a making bricks and gets the MVP award for the day.
Today was amazing! We began our day with a walk through the Yungay market, where the people from the mountains bring down their things to sell on Wednesdays and Sundays. There were blankets, fruits and vegetables, a meat market, and lots of interesting sights and smells. The end of our tour through the market was a little sad, as Laura E. and Chris picked out two, super cute, squeaky guinea pigs to eat with breakfast. They named the unfortunate pair Carlos and Guillermo.
After breakfast in a little restaurant, we began our ascent up to the Continental Divide. Two hours later, we were standing looking at snow capped mountains and the crazily windy road that we had come up on. God´s creation is so amazing....there are no words to describe it. On the way down, we stopped at Llanganuco, a glacier lake, and had a picnic lunch. Some of us took a boat out into the icy water....brrrrr.....
Tonight, we had a great time of worship lead by Dave F. and Jeffery Davis. Then Billy Clark shared with us about what it is that we are doing here and about the street boys who´s lives we are participating in. It is such a blessing to a part of what God is doing! There is nothing else more satisfying.
QUOTES OF THEY DAY
-Is anyone else singing circle of life right now? (Sidney, while driving through the mountains)
-Look at the lake! How did they do that? (Remick, referring to Lake Llanganuco and its very green color)
- I´ve gotta give that man a hug...and my tuna sandwich. (David B., referring to the bus driver after making it safely to the top of the Continental Divide)
- My toilet paper is blowing away. (Rach; due to the fact there were no toilets at 16,200 feet)
I still have to download pics from today, but they are coming.
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