An Armadillos English

Today I visited the orphanage with my brother Marcus and as I didn't have a fluent Spanish speaker with me I had to try really hard to speak to others. Luckily there wasn't too much to say to anyone over five, however I managed to thoroughly confuse Eduardo. He is a sweetheart though so he didn't seem to mind too much, although it could have been due to the fact that I brought him food. 

The kinders were really cute today, they were coloring giraffes when we got there and after lunch had a small party. They were doing renovations in the kindergarten room so we were all outside today, luckily it wasn't too chilly.

 

I brought the kinders tangerines and chocolate milk, which was good because otherwise Ricardo, Xiomara and Angelo would not have had anything for lunch. 

 

Marcus and I played soccer with Eduardo while Alejandro was doing lessons with a tutor.

 

 

And of course I fed him cookies, and when Alejandro came out I gave him a pack too.

 

Alejandro played with my camera as per usual and we took some pictures together.

 

 

I'm not completely sure what we were doing when Alejandro snapped this, but I was definitely trying to give Eduardo some bunny ears. Look at his smile. Is he too old to call cute?

 

I loved watching the kinders dance, and of course I decided to join them. If you have never danced with a bunch of little kids, you should add that to your bucket list. Seeing how they dance and watching the girls talk and giggle was very amusing.

 

After we said our goodbyes, and I promised Alejandro and Eduardo I would be back on Friday, this time with Laura we left. Marcus and I decided to grab some lunch and see if we could find any bottled milk at the store.

 

We ate at a sandwich shop at La Molina Plaza before shopping at Plaza Vea. I ordered myself a sandwich and coke and Marcus a hotdog without any condiments and an inca cola and thought I had done a pretty good job ordering in Spanish. My confidence only lasted until the food was brought out and the only thing placed in Marcus' basket was a small baguette, not even cut.

 

We both looked at each other and I apologized before bursting out laughing. Marcus found it more of a nuisance than he found it amusing.

 

 

He angrily chastised me on my poor Spanish skills and said “Your Spanish is like an armadillo's English" I stared at him blankly before he continued, “...except an armadillo doesn't even know what English is, which is more the point."  I asked him where he had heard that and he looked at me with a serious face and said, "I made it up myself."  Funny kid. If you can make any sense of Marcus' armadillo analogy let me know.

 

Happy Wednesday!

Shopping

We went to the mall on Saturday,and while my mom was busy looking at table cloths or something in her favorite store Casa & Ideas, Marissa and I went into Saga Falabella to look for some hair clips. Shopping is shopping so we figured we would be okay.

It is the most confusing, annoying process.

 Let me explain.  There are little kiosks all over the store, with merchandise around it.

 So you choose your merchandise, and then you give it to the lady at the kiosk by it. She then prints you off a receipt and sends you to the Caja- the cash register. There you give them the receipt and pay. And then they give you another receipt. You then take your receipt back to the kiosk where they check it and give you your stuff along with another receipt.

 

So by the time you are through, you have talked to several people, been in several lines, and have a dozen receipts in your pockets.While we were there we saw this giant ostrich display with the jeans.   We took pictures (of course).

 

The Science Museum

Last Friday we took a trip to a science museum. It was interesting. 

It was in a large warehouse and had  different sections.

I liked this one. The object was to use your weight and work together to balance or tip the scale to get the basketball from the top to the bottom and through another hoop. 

 I cringed at the sight of this structure.

 I was positive that it was going to collapse at any moment.

The fearless ten year old tried it anyway. Props Marcus. 

And then he rode a bike, so you could see the way your bones move.

There was a warning sign on it:

Drive with Caution.

Oh the irony of it. Peruvians don't drive with caution... at all. 

Nothing was holding the blocks up but the blocks themselves.

There was an earthquake room, although I don't know why, because earthquakes are quite common. 

We had two early this morning. One at 2am and one at 4am. 

I don't know what this is, but they had fun with it.

Marcus on a bed of nails. Apparently it was pretty comfy. I didn't try though.

Want to learn about the dental system? They had that too.

And the birthing process... 

just in case you missed health class.

My personal favourite was the big pregnant lady.

 You know, just in case you wanted to see how the baby grows. 

Why is it so big? Yeah, we don't know either. 

Marissa and Mom, looking cute as always.

There was a random information desk, so we posed. 

I was employee of the month.

 Mom was sleeping on the job.

And that was our exciting trip to the museum!

A Very Boring Week

Hello Everyone!

This week was a bit boring. I had made plans to go out and do some volunteering, but it fell through. So I spent most of the week sulking in my room. On Friday though all our things came. I was really  excited to have new sheets and a mattress cover/ pillow top. It was heavenly to sleep in. I organized everything in my closet. I really didn't bring very much but I don't mind.

Our water keeps going out. It isn't too bad during the day, unless you need to shower. When the water finally comes back on all we get is really cold water so taking showers kinda sucks. I have to remind myself that there are people who don't have water heaters.

Here are a few pics. Last weekend we went to the Inka Market and found a few things there. I got some bracelets and we found Marissa a really cute sweater made from alpaca. We got Zach a few things too, and a few gifts for family.

I spy a... skateboarding dog? and other things

I had quite a day yesterday... paint balling and then hanging out with the family. 

Marissa & I went paint balling with some of the youth in our ward.

 And I have some lovely bruises from it. It was lots of fun though, so it was worth it. 

After we drove along the coast and walked along some of the shops. We had a lot of fun as a family eating lunch and just talking as well as looking at the shops and walking around. 

 

 We ate at TGI Fridays. Marcus had salchipapas (hot dog and fry's) 

 We all had to have dessert (of course!)

 Mom and Marcus shared a brownie with ice cream. 

 Marissa ate two ice cream cookies all by herself. She was really hungry (:

 I shared a key lime pie with my dad. After sneaking a bite (or two!) of the others desserts,I have to say that the key lime pie was the best of them. It was delicious. 

 We walked around a bit, and later, because we didn't get enough sweets, 

we stopped at Starbucks for hot chocolate and triple chocolate cookies. 

 It was a bit windy and misty and cloudy yesterday but also very beautiful. We all enjoyed walking around together. 

 While there taking pictures we saw a very cute bulldog skateboarding. He was really cute. 

Here is the video I got of him. 

We also saw an exhibit of dresses made all out of natural/ recycled materials. 

The newspaper one was my favorite.