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We've now completed 3 whole weeks in Pisco. And as we wrote on the last post, the first week and a half was a wonderfull experience. Long days of hard work out on site with the Peruvian families, late nights with the other volunteers and desert-trips. After that first period, we've both been struggeling with illness and haven't gotten as much use out of our time as we want to.
A typical day at PSF is getting up for breakfast at 07.30, eat and get ready for the day, attend morning meeting at 0815 and then head out to the projects at about 9am. working a whole day and returning to the house at 4-5 pm, eat dinner at the house at around 6pm and then chill out for the night. Next morning same procedure. Saturday we work a half day, till lunch.Eirik:
I got stung by a scorpion on monday a week after our arrival. It started out as just a swollen foot, but by thirsday, it was no longer possible to walk on, I got a fever and generally just a really painfull foot. Since then, there's been a continous period on antibiotics, painkillers and anti - inflamatories, both in form of injeccions and pills. Went back to the doctor on tuesday and had the foot emptied of dead tissue and gross stuff. Both body and foot has gradually been getting better and better, there's still a bit of healing left, but both body and foot is closing in on 100% again.
The first week I joined a project that was starting up, with a family of 6 people who's been homeless since the earthqauke. Our project leader left Pisco a week after we started, so I took over the project and, with the rest of the four-man team, finished it before I got knocked out. This week I only got in two days of work, thirsday and friday, but I've made two bunkbeds for this family, all by myself. Which I'm a little proud about :) My plan was to drive theese beds out to the family today and leave for Nasca tomorrow. But the PSF - truck is having a bad day, so I'm not 100% sure what's happening yet. But hopefully I'll get everything here done by monday morning and join a couple of volunteers in Nazca, seeing the mythical Nazca lines from airplane. After Nazca, Arequipa is the next target. Meeting up with Ludde and some of the other guys from Pisco to celebrate easter trekking in Colca-canyon.. I still haven't decided wether or not I'm returning to Pisco or not. The organsation is fantastic, and the work you get to be a part of here is amazing. Except for the damned scorpion, it's been everything I was hoping for. But need to get my body back in shape and take it from there. Ludde: First project here was Rita's house, which we have finished now. We built her a security wall, roof, interior walls, and a bathroom. It was one the PSFs miracle projects which means that we don't have any exterior funding and have to use old crap for building, and just do the best of it. I think we did alright, and with the Maine-borned carpenter Dylan as project leader it turned out pretty good. Rita and her family was so happy to finally be behind secured walls and with water in their house. It's truly a huge difference from the poor conditions they lived in before! Under you can see Sofia finishing the kitchen sink in Rita's. In the first weekend I went on a desert trip with to other volunteers and we got the priveledge to find 12milion year old shark teeth laying at 600 meter over sea level in the sand. There is an abundance of shells and bones of the ancient sea out there, in other words a beautiful and mindblow ing place. Got to see human remains, a crystilized whale brain, plenty of fossils and loads of sand. The stars in the night was beautiful as well. After having a bad time with my stomach in week 2, I was well enough to work again in week 3. Our bodies are constantly working again the bacterias down here, it's a dirty place. So I really never recovered totally, and after some whisky on friday night, I'm oficially ill again. It's getting better again, and tomorrow I should be good to go again. I'm currently working on a project at "El molino" which is a neighborhood the government built after the earthquake, carefully hidden from the highway by a tall brick wall. People there have nothing, we talked to a family which had 20 soles, or $7, every day to feed a family of 12 and leaving under horrible conditions in a small unsafe house. We're working to set up a house which is going to be used as a kindergarden for 1-2 year olds in this area. This includes moving and slightly improving the house of a family that lives where the kindergarden is going to be, but we don't have fundings to give them as much improvements as we want. They live without toilet and water, using the dirt backyard for neccessities and plastic covers for walls. The perspective this place is going to give us is unknown, but for sure I will never forget seing poverty like this. Hoping to finish this project before easter holiday, which starts on thursday. Eirik is probably taking this week off and I will meet him again on wednesday night in Arequipa, to trek the infamous Colca-canyon. Going to be great to see the green hills of the andean mountains again, something else than grey sand and dust.
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