Alas, another Monday is among us. Tomorrow, my roommate will return from her two week trip...woohoo! I am definitely looking forward to her company. The weekend was a busy but fun one. Saturday morning, I received a phone call from Jesusa. Jesusa is 35 and works/lives at the home where Vaneza and five other girls live. Like me, she is also pretty new to Cusco. She arrived in August and doesn´t know very many people here. Earlier last week I had given her my number and told her to give me a call if she ever wanted to do something. So she did...Saturday morning. We left around 10am and went to volunteer at a home for some of the elderly of Cusco (although I can´t remember the name of the place right now). I am looking forward to going back on the Saturdays that I can. There are eleven elderly homes in all of Peru...one of which is here in Cusco. The shelter is home to 250 elderly folk. Jesusa and I walked around and did a bit of chatting before heading to one of the dining halls where we helped serve lunch. After serving lunch, we headed to one of the recreation centers to watch the soccer game...although I can´t remember who won. When the game was over, Jesusa and I left and put in some good walking before grabbing some yum lunch. Then we did some more walking. She is a nurse and wants to go back to school to study dentistry. So we went and found some book vendors near the university who were selling textbooks...I didn´t realize how grody some mouth diseases can look until I flipped through some of the books...brusha brusha brusha!
On Sunday I collected my laundry and enjoyed a nice stroll in the Plaza de Armas before heading back over to Jesusa´s. She had asked if we could do a movie swap for the week and Vaneza asked if she could borrow some paints for a school project. It is finals week at the universities here...yikes! When I walked into the house and saw all of the girls working on projects and studying, I flashed back to PLNU and my cluttered desk. phew! I was grateful I was there to help but didn´t have to actually take any tests.
Well, I had better get going on home so I can clean up the mess that is our apartment before Meghan gets back tomorrow...eek. Wishing you a wonderful week! Chau!
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haha. your blog now has music. how fancy =)
What a cool name; Jesusa?! Do you remember the movie with Robert Duvall called the Apostle or something like that? And how in prison he would ask questions like, who will be by your side when you walk through the valley of the shadow of death? Then the prisoners would all answer, Jesus-sa-sa! Now you can be Robert Duvall and Jesusa can be a prisoner. Ah Stupid!
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