Saturday morning we had a group
meeting about camp ALMA. This is a girls’ leadership camp that the PCVs in each
department plan every year, where getting set to have ours here in Ancash. This
year’s is going to have a “go green” theme. I’m pretty excited.
After
the meeting Kaitlyn and I went to the wedding of a lady that we both work with
in site. Her name is Krus and she was a lovely bride. For a brief 15 minutes we
thought we weren’t going to actually make it to the wedding though. We went to
the church where we thought it was and there was another bride standing at the
alter….confusing. So we went to the other big church in Huaraz, but there was
no wedding there at all. We went back to the first church and finally saw
someone we recognized. Turns out there was more than one wedding that day and
the first one was running late…no surprise there. So we went and got snacks
while we waited for the first wedding to finish :-P Kait and I went to the
reception long enough to say hello to the bride and groom and participate in
the toast, but then we decided to duck out early. Parties in this country have
a tendency to never end, so we decided to take care of that ourselves ha ha ha.
That
night Keren, Jeff and I made dinner at the hostel. Jeff makes a pretty killer
fresh tomato sauce, so we ate well. We tried to watch Monty Python and the Holy
Grail after dinner, but Jeff and I only made it through about 30 minutes before
falling asleep :-P
As
per usually, I went to Cali for breakfast and to work on the internet for a few
hours before heading back to site. Sadly when I got back I found out that my
host niece was in the hospital. She had been little sick when I left for the
weekend, but clearly things had gotten worse. It’s was a little strange to get
this news and then see the family showing almost no emotion. People in the
Sierra are just a little more reserved than I’ve been used to.
