Hola from Party Central, PeruWell it has been one big Birthday Bash month. First we celebrated Stacy's birthday on Feb. 19. We were painting at the school early in the morning and it just so happens that who stops by but the Ministry of Education board. They all sang Happy Birthday to her in English and Spanish everyone hugged her too. Next for lunch the principal of Micaela school took us all out for ceviche and cervesas at one of our favorite places Gemelit...

Hola amigos!Long time no write. We miss you! Since its been a while, we have added two new photo albums too. Please specifically check out the one entitled "Requesting help for miracles in Mancora" which has some pictures of the school we are trying to help out with our fundraising campaign. Hope all is well in the frozen north! It is HOT HOT HOT here. We finally have hot water in our new house, but who needs it with this weather! We take several c...

Hello again from Mancora. We hope that you are all safe and sound and getting ready for Christmas. It will be very different for us to celebrate here away from you all and away from the snow. We returned from Ecuador after leaving to renew our visa and ourselves a little. It felt like we were coming home and it was a welcome sight to see places and faces that we knew. The next month after returning was extremely busy. We were planning our Adult classes an...

So, don't you ever get tired of those days when you have to always put your shoes on to walk around your house or your feet will turn black from all the dirt? And when you have to constantly fill your 500 ml water bottle with bottled drinking water from the big jug in the kitchen so that you can brush your teeth without getting sick? And don't you ever get tired of seeing men urinate on their homes outside of your window? And what about all of the ants crawlin...

Hey there amigos!Hope life is treating everyone well back home.We are getting into the groove here and it is now spring!We are really enjoying our adult English class ALOT (the kids, not so much!) and it gives us a chance to connect to some adults here too from all walks of life. I think I'd really like to pursue teaching ESL more seriously once we get back to Canada....I really love it. We are getting along pretty well with the other volunteer and have also st...