Emily's Blog

There is not a moments peace here for all the taxi´s honking their horns. After over three weeks here riding in colectivos everyday I have finally decoded what the honks are saying and split them into five categories: When attracting a new customer: “Hello, you… yes you! I´m over here, that´s right on the other side of [...]

just emailed a guy about going Sandboarding this weekend… eeek excited!!! Still can´t get on my blog though # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Wanted to write a blog post today, but this computer has an anti-porn package installed on it… and apparently my blog contains pornogr … # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Today Alison (the new volunteer, who´s 26 and from Minnesota) and I went to Huanchaco Beach to tomar un poquito de sol It´s about 40 minutes on the bus from Trujillo, and quite a bus ride it is. I still feel nauseous from all the jolts… it honestly felt like the bus was held together [...]

I am seeing these left, right and centre haha can´t possibly remember them all but here´s a few: – I saw an advertisement for a food company called Fanny.. so far I have seen their name on a can of tuna, and a jar of strawberry jam. Hahaha too many jokes too little internet time [...]

Just realized I’d not eaten ANY sugar for a week so compensated with the biggest slice of the BEST choc cake! # Now feeling incredibly contented # Learning all my Spanish from Peruvian Cosmo… So I can converse about all the important things in life # Powered by Twitter Tools.

One of the presents which I brought over from England for the children was a jumbo colouring book. Inside are lots of silly pictures of cute looking animals etc. nothing out of the ordinary. So I decided I would get Mama Doris to go through the book with me and teach me the names of [...]

(The Nursery and my little babies) I have fallen head over heels in love… with eight of the most adorable little babies you have ever seen in your whole life! The nursery where I´m working is called el Cunitario de Amor (The Love Unit) it´s run by an organisitation called Wawa Wasi who run nurseries [...]

(Mummy Doris, her family, and her house) Mama Doris lives in Urbanizacion Monserratte, it´s about a 10 minute walk from the centre of Trujillo and completely different to it! Most of the buildings are unfinished, like the builders just took a hike half way through… but the people moved in and started living there anyway [...]