Hola once again from dusty, hot and sunny Mancora! Well, we've been continuing to have quite the experience here and have managed to find ourselves just as busy now as we were in Edmonton! Hopefully it's just a craze for a bit while we write curriculum for everything we are doing and then it will settle in to the slower pace that the Mancorians seem to have found. We haven't written for a while, so if you plan to read this blog entry, it might be worth your w...

Hola from sunny Mancora! Today we went with one of the volunteers who is teaching English in the primary school here and we met the kids (all 25 of them!) that will be in one of our 4th grade English classes when we start teaching in September. They were VERY full of energy and VERY eager to learn. As soon as they saw us arrive they all started dancing around chanting "ingles" which means "English" in Spanish. It was very cute and they are ...

Weird that there was that huge earthquake in Lima...glad the timing was such that we weren't there....that would have been freaky. We spent a couple of days in Lima and really loved what we saw...the market, really good restaurants, a hotel that made us feel that we were living in a Maeve Binchy novel (have you read her?) I love those books..all about people's interconnected lives and seemingly chance meetings. It is definitely a third world country. M...

After a frantic and fabulous send off by our very much loved friends, we arrived safely in Lima on Thursday and this morning in Mancora. We've had a few adventures, such as Shelly's broken foot nearly exploding on the plane because it was so swollen, my bag getting lost for 2 days but arriving at our hotel in Lima in time to take the 16 hour bus ride to Mancora with us, blowing up a "transformador" which we used to try to convert the electricity to...