So today is my last day of work with Expand Peru and over the past week I have had an amazing time getting more involved in the projects and trying to make as much of a difference as possible before I left. We have finally started painting the decorations on the front of the building project and as I was the only one with any kind of art experience or skill so I was responsible for drawing the design on the front. Its good to know that although its not painted...

So the last couple of days have been pretty busy. The after school club is officially up and running in the new building we have been working on this past month. Its impressive to see how much the building has changed since work began, which was also my first day of work with the charity so its nice to see the development of the project. We had a meeting about the after shool club on Tuesday night as we are now able to hire a teacher to work with the children ...

Sorry its been a few days since my last ´post, this is mainly because we spent the last couple of days hungover. On saturday night we decided to play drinking games before heading out to the club. This soon turned in to one crazy night with excessive amounts of drinks, dancing and singing with strangers and a live band. We did have plans to go paintballing 10am on Sunday but after getting in at 5:30am we decided against it and instead spent the day hungover in...

Yesterday we spent another day at the orphanage with the kids. The kids very kindly helped me learn a little Spanish before teaching me some games they love to play. One of the boys, Valentino, taught me how to play a game involving a spinning top and a piece of string. It is pretty addictive so definitely going to buy one as soon as I see one in a shop. Just before we left we went to visit the really young kids and they wouldnt let us leave until we gave them al...

First of all Feliz Fanny Friday, but that's a different story which I will get to soon but first il tell you what iv been up to the last couple of days. On Wednesday morning we were travelling to the building project in bernabe's car and when we stopped at the lights a child appeared from nowhere and started to cartwheels and hand stands in front of the waiting traffic. Bernabe told us that these kids are sent out by their parents to beg because the parents don't...