Halfway Through Service!
Hey everyone! It´s hard to believe that I´ll be back in the land of Goshen in just over three weeks! WOW this time is flying.

We´re currently smack dab in the middle of our time on service. I´m serving in a greenhouse project that is near Cuzco. The food in the greenhouses goes to feed the kids in a school in the project, and the parents of the kids, and the kids as well, help in the greenhouses to make everything happen. My main role is to teach English and help with computing and the likes in the school, but I find myself working wherever there is work to be done.

Here in our small hole in the mountains the weather can get pretty interesting. When we wake up in the mornings, the sun is usually out, but its a little cool. Come 9-10 o´clock we are usually pretty hot and ready for a break by eleven. Usually around lunch time (1:00) the clouds will roll in to cool off the afternoon and by three or four we can begin to here thunder rolling over the mountains. We have a thunderstorm daily (literally, so far I can´t remember a day we haven´t had rain yet) but usually it doesn´t last that long. Sometimes when the storm is especially strong the whole village loses power for a while. That makes things interesting because when it gets dark here, it is really dark. There is no street light bleed over to light the sky. It is literally impossible to see your hand in front of you. It also can be difficult to then find things to do in the dark of a storm, but we´ve made do just fine.

This next weekend one friend stationed in Cuzco is coming to visit us. Following that our leaders Alex and Julia are coming to visit. That following weekend we´re headed back to Lima for a night and then off to the beach to relax and present our final projects… (I never thought I´d throw finals and relaxing together on the beach… hmm)

While I´m sure I will miss some of the cute kids I´m teaching, being surrounded by wonderful mountains, and basking in the sunshine, I´ve got to admit, I´m excited to return home. During my free time in class when I´ve not always got something to do, I´ve had time to make lists of things that miss, things that I want to do, places I want to go, people I want to see (the longest, and ever growing) and of course, food I want to eat! With that said though, I´m still enjoying my time and making the best of my experience here in Peru.

Well, I´m about out of time online here. It´s harder than it was in Lima to upload pictures, so I´ll be sure to update my blog with photos when I get back in three weeks. Until then, enjoy your Novembers!

-Tim
Posted at 15:31