*sun, fun and ....MUCHO to do*

These past two weeks have been relatively busy! Well I guess, it's not like any of my other weeks are NOT busy ;) But this one especially - or maybe I just like to think so.

Last week we finished our crochet project with the 'sordos'. Now the seriousness of life is back in school. Well at least most of the time. ;) Nevertheless there is always a little bit of time to fool around. What happens if we fool around? Well see for yourself:

J. trying on my sombrero

Milene also came up with a new teaching method. Always two kids had to come up front. She would then ask them a question. The goal was to get the right answer before the other one did. If the answer was wrong or if you lost --- well this is what happened (not sure this teaching method would be accepted in Switzerland, haha) :

In the afternoons we continued our 'wall-project'. It's starting to look really cool! Together with each child, we make a painting of them. It's really awesome and I hope the kids are having just as much fun as we do. =P As for the people who work there at the orphanage- well we don't really know what they think about it. They never really say anything about the things we do... But we kinda decided for ourselves just to go on and do it for the kids. As long as they can have a smile on their faces - it's all we need! 

Judge for yourself, but I think they did an absolutely amazing job!

By the end of the week we had 8 paintings done!

Also this week my auntie left for Switzerland. We are very sad to have her gone - but we are very grateful that she lets us stay here anyways. As you can tell from me still being able to write this blog - we haven't starved to death yet - tho we are pretty close, I would say. ;) We definitely miss her amazing cooking skills !!!

Well yesterday we tried to make Rocoto - the end of the story was - Ursina crying at the lunch table because of the Rocoto. Ajajaj, but somehow we will survive - be it with just bread and water  ;)

On Thursday was my birthday. The teachers at the orphanage were super sweet! They brought me a cake. After singing a birthday song for me they said, that it was a tradition here, that I would have to take the first bite directly from the cake. Well I can officially cross of 'having a cake smashed in your face' from my bucket-list now... ;) 

After a long day of work, Ursina then invited me to go eat dinner at this super yummi place! I had poulet de orange - riiiiiiiiico!

We even had these little peruvian guys with the big sombreros playing in the background. They technically were there for somebody else, but they played just right next to our table - so this was like an extra treat for my b-day!

So as you can see - I'm not getting bored here! We are always finding ways and times to make sure that the fun of life is not missing.

Wish you all a faboulishious week! Be safe ye all and make sure you go have FUN!

Mucho trabajo and even less sleep!

I can't believe how fast time flies by! I just realized today, that I'm already half way thru - pretty soon it will be July - and there is still so much work to be done! But well I guess, one only has two hands and we just take it day by day. But we definitely won't get bored, so that's awesome!

These past two weeks have been pretty crazy. First of all we threw a party on the 1st of May. All the teachers had off (to go party;) ). It's pretty awesome - in Peru it seems - people use every excuse they can get to throw parties. That's why they also have 'pharmacy day', 'secretary day', 'cebiche day' and soooo many more! Really I don't think there is one day, that is not dedicated to something or somebody! Anyways, when people have labor strikes on May 1st in Switzerland, Peruvians go out and celebrate. Gotta looove Peru! =D
So anyways, as everybody else was partying and having a good time we decided to party as well! We drank coca cola, ate snacks, sang and danced all afternoon!

Oh yeah we are party animals!

We also finished our first project - YAY!!!! It turned out really great and I'm so proud of these kids, with how much love and patience they painted these! Long live Barney and Minnie!

first time putting in a screw! Great job!

hard work!

our dear fans stayed true to us till the end!

We also started a new tradition of reading stories every week! So far we read a bunch of car stories, Peter Pan und Hänsel und Gretel! Haha, this is definitely great Spanish practice for me!

In the mornings we are still with the deaf kids. Right now we are doing a crochet project. They've already made little hair thingys and now we are making sombreros. Always great times! Alonso tells us at least 3 jokes every day - tho we haven't really understood one yet x) But we still have 1.5 months to try, right ;) We still need to tell them to slow down while talking, but we are catching on better and better. Sign language really fascinates me!

Also we took a trip up to Yura, to visit the thermal baths. Unfortunately pretty much everything is under construction. So only one of the 3 baths was open. First we hiked a little bit thru the village - well it isn't much more of a village than Guggisberg is ;) But it was still cool - beautiful landscape!

Ursina and I also went in the one bath that was open! Well let's just say - I don't think the water is really supposed to have this color x) I don't know how much hair I fished out of this tub - well I think it would have nearly been enough for a wig ;) Yuuuuu! Haha.

Also in this whole time I've been here, I've never had so many mosquito bites like I had after this trip! Ouch! It must have been the chocolate I ate the day before! Still I love you SWISS CHOCOLATE, I will always be true to you! =D

Yup this is my crazy busy life in Arequipa! Definitely enjoying it!