Gabe and I have been very busy this past week as we have gotten
acclimated to Peruvian life. Getting to know a city of almost eight
million people can be a very tricky process but we feel a lot more
comfortable than when we first arrived. We live with a family in Barrios
Altos, a district in Lima. We wake up each morning around seven, drink
some coffee and eat some bread, and take an hour bus ride to San Juan de
Lurigancho, where we work. This district is the poorest district in
Lima. After the bus ride we walk for 20 minutes through part of the
district to our school where we stay until two pm.
This past week
in the school has been dedicated to getting to know the kids and
identifying the most pertinent needs of the school. The children have so
much engergy and we have found it challenging to keep their minds on
learing. Part of the problem stems from the school being extremely small
and unable to support the 24 kids ages 3 to 5 that attend daily. There
really is no place around the school where they can play and so the
classroom becomes both a playground, cafeteria, and place to learn; the
lines between the three blurr together. Also, the parents of the
students usually work outside the home and return from work at about 9
at night. Thus the kids spend most of the day with little direction or
discipline from their parents.
We have met twice with our contact
in Lima and starting tomorrow will begin implementing the most
pertinent projects needed by the school. Stay posted, we hope to blog
again within a day or two.
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