So it is official I have achieved something in the Peace Corps! haha it only took 6 months in site but at least it happened. I started my healthy schools project last week. I gave an hour long chat/ session/ charla (whatever you want to call it) twice over how to create a healthy classroom. It might not seem like a lot but talking in front of secondary school age kids for an hour is SOOOOO HARD! Especially when it is in another language. Praise God that my Spanish is finally up to snuff! My health post only had to clarify once or twice for the kids. Some photos from the day

Obviously ME!! teaching. I know hard to believe but it actually was a lot of fun. In large part think that is because I only will do it about every two weeks.







They had to draw a healthy classroom or school. The winner got some candy...the things necessary to motivate haha.

So this kid on my right is one of my favs!!! 

 My health post worker 

 Dona Mari

Now that I have accomplished something concrete I'm hoping my service will pick up and not only be more exciting but more filling. Never ever did I want to discover that sitting around is really hard and boring! haha.
This week we also did a group visit to Kate's site. Her mom is here from the states so we had a good excuse and the fact that we had a camp, VALOR, this weekend and Kate's site is kinda on the way. Anyways it was really fun. Her primary school put on a celebration! It was so cute they danced and sang and read poems. Then we had a Peru vs USA volleyball game which was a blast.

 I was asked for more photos....part of why this one is so full. This is a view from the road in-between my site and the capital city. 

 So where we live in the mountains everybody is pretty poor. Yet there is money in the government. When they don't spend their budget they loss it, so this town has this really nice soccer stadium and is currently building a bull stadium....you can't see it in the photo but there is so much trash and incomplete buildings etc. I guess soccer ranks a bit higher than those things.

 and now LOOK I am actually growing something. I'm very proud of my little green sprouts. I grew them from lentils and I can't wait to eat them!!







As most of you can probably tell by this blog my life is super duper exciting, haha. Hoping that in the months to come I'll get some really great stories to tell. LOVE.