Week 1

Pictures- View from the roof of our condo complex and the school which are both on the same street.

We are kind of getting off track from the start - apparently, we haven´t been writing nearly enough about Mike´s mustache. It´s doing well tying together international bonds. The three of us have started our project here at the school mi segundo hogar - ´´my second home´. It looks like we are going to be making a small library for the school. We are already in to day 3 of painting and we´ve realized that our simple project is going to be far more difficult due to lack of resources. Our breaks consist of dancing, playing fetch with the kids and trying to keep the ball away from the stray dogs.
We also sit in on the classes from time to time. Today, Mike was in class with the 4 year olds. He was a little behind on the Spanish language lesson but coloring is a different story. At least top 3 in the class.
We also ventured out at night for the first time - but with a group of 6 of us. It was us, Jill´s host dad, the coordinator of the school and two travelers passing through for the night which made them tourists 3 and 4 in Chimbote. Since they left early this morning we are again maintaining the gringo status of Chimbote. We are looking in to expeditions after we are finished volunteering and we don´t even know where to begin. The one traveler passing through has been exploring Peru for the past 4 months.