Saturday morning I went into
Huaraz for another ALMA meeting and to hang out with the new Ancash volunteers.
I’m not the new kid anymore! The 18-ers were coming back through the city after
their site visits so we all wanted to be around to hang out. Ali, Keren and I
took Celeste, Matt and David out for lunch. Then after an afternoon of wandering
around to see the city I treated them to some ice cream in the plaza. Welcome
to the family new guys!
Just to keep things
interesting, that weekend was also the going away party for Peter (a Peru
14-er). Bit of a revolving door effect, no? Sunday night was slightly subdued
as we were all absorbing the fact that Pete’s two years were ending, the 18-ers
were just starting and the rest of us are just turning circles in the middle. The
18-ers seem amazing and I’m sure Pete is going on to great things, but it’s
still strange to take it all in. But it’s like Vero reminded us, we don’t get
any more new volunteers until next August. That’s almost a whole year until more pebbles
get dropped in the puddle……or more to the heart of the matter, almost a whole
year until more pebbles get taken out of the puddle (does this metaphor work in
reverse…….)
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