Monday, July 16, 2012

  1. It is 9:16 on a Monday and we are in the orphanage/farm in Peru. I am very sorry that I haven't been blogging but we have been busy doing laundry, killing spiders helping, the medical/eye group Etc. Etc.We arrived here late Wednesday to hear that all of the houses are infested with brown recluse(here brown recluse are house spiders) as well as the occasional tarantula and black widow. When we arrived the beds weren't made of course so we had to make them our selves, when making my bed I found three live spiders and two dead ones just on the mattress. later we found some spider killer and my dad sprayed almost the whole room, but it stunk soooooo bad that we had to leave the house plus it was time for dinner. When we came back it still smelled, but not half as bad.We woke the next morning and went to breakfast  (which turned out to be more like a feast) and had oatmeal, homemade toast with butter, jelly, and honey, fresh fruit, current, strawberry, mango, peach, and pineapple flavored yogurt, eggs, and fresh juice made all by Santusa, who cooks and does the laundry. Later, around lunch time, the medical group arrived, after introducing ourselves we ate lunch and me, Madeleine, and our dad went down to the river, after that we went back to the house and gathered all of our dirty clothes and brought them down to Santusa. At dinner, we found out that almost everyone in the medical group was in their church choir and that they could reealy sing. (we sang the Doxology) That was Thursday. Friday was the first Clinic. We held it right by the school. I sat in the sun, talked with Chance, Taylor, Lisa, Isaac (every one calls him Oso) (which means bear in Spanish) Jean, the doctor guy, and sang with Barbra. Madeleine work at the registration with Oso. Oso would ask the people what was wrong and then tell my sister what they said. She would write it down under medical or eye. On Saturday, We went on a hike to see snow. Sarah went because she thought that Dad could drive her to the snow. (She was sick and very weak) But she was determined to hike with us. The first part of the hike was soooo hard. Sarah and Madeleine were almost always ahead of me and Barbra, but they weren't as fast as Daddy, Pastor Whammy, Oso, the pastor's son, and Wesley. Wesley carried Sarah's backpack, which had a  hammock, a blow up pillow, Dice, a notebook, and her medicine. We hiked forever until we got to have a finally reasonable break for lunch. We had dried fruit, (It tasted gross) and beef jerky. (yummy) it was soo nice out. Where we had our lunch break there was this sooouper pretty lake, that was the most beautiful color blue,  (kinda like in those postcards in Hawaii.) Looking at it made me feel hungry for pesto salmon. We had soo much fun. after that we went up this really steep hill that was almost a cliff. Almost every one wanted to go to where there was lots of snow but pastor whammy was a stick in the mud snow. Sarah looked better every minute. Even though she wasn't sure she was going to make it all the way to the  snow. (we did see snow, but it was more like snow cone shaved ice.) After that we walked back down the mountain and I almost cried because i was so mad because i didn't get to play in allot of snow. I am still MAD. We sang almost the whole drive home. We also sang allot at dinner. On our way back to Casa del Aguila, we stopped in Moyapatah

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