This is the most snow I've seen or will see in Peru. This was on our 7-hour(ish) drive back from Tarma. We got up early, packed, checked out, had breakfast and rushed to the bus station to find out that our 9 a.m. bus didn't leave till 9:45. We mostly slept (but Meredith woke us up for this view). The highlight of the trip was when the bus stopped in the middle of the road halfway down the mountain (by the way, these are like switchbacks in a pretty steep valley). Ten guys get up and get off the bus. I thought maybe there was a problem with the bus, but then we look out the window, and nope. Just a bathroom break. Only in Peru. Then, we stopped for lunch -- they told us we had 20 minutes. We ate as quickly as we could, but the bus still started to leave without us. It had started driving down the road and pulled over to pick us up. Oops. The second half of the drive, Meredith and I sat together to keep going over the Cross-Cultural Servanthood book, and it's awesome because now that I've been here two months, I've started to have a lot of cross-cultural experiences. I know exactly what the author is talking about because I've experienced it. We got to the bus station in La Victoria at about 4, and back to the house by 4:30. Dave Block picked me up to go to my last English class at El Alfarero, and he had bought me a cake that said "Feliz Viaje Bethany." It was so sweet! Everyone in the class gave me a big hug goodbye, and they wished me safe travel and God's blessing. And the cake was awesome -- chocolatey with a little bit of whip cream and cherries. The lesson for those last two classes was using the song "Big House" by Audio Adrenaline, and I had to teach them all the motions. It's actually a really good song for teaching English because the verbs are in present tense or are commands, it's pronounced well, it has simple vocabulary, and it's slow enough that they can sing along. However, I would be fine if I went 10 years without ever hearing that song again -- I've met my quota of Audio Adrenaline for a while. I was telling Dave, though, on the way home that it hasn't hit me yet that I'm leaving. I'm excited for the next phase in my life, but I'm really going to miss Peru.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Day 70
This is the most snow I've seen or will see in Peru. This was on our 7-hour(ish) drive back from Tarma. We got up early, packed, checked out, had breakfast and rushed to the bus station to find out that our 9 a.m. bus didn't leave till 9:45. We mostly slept (but Meredith woke us up for this view). The highlight of the trip was when the bus stopped in the middle of the road halfway down the mountain (by the way, these are like switchbacks in a pretty steep valley). Ten guys get up and get off the bus. I thought maybe there was a problem with the bus, but then we look out the window, and nope. Just a bathroom break. Only in Peru. Then, we stopped for lunch -- they told us we had 20 minutes. We ate as quickly as we could, but the bus still started to leave without us. It had started driving down the road and pulled over to pick us up. Oops. The second half of the drive, Meredith and I sat together to keep going over the Cross-Cultural Servanthood book, and it's awesome because now that I've been here two months, I've started to have a lot of cross-cultural experiences. I know exactly what the author is talking about because I've experienced it. We got to the bus station in La Victoria at about 4, and back to the house by 4:30. Dave Block picked me up to go to my last English class at El Alfarero, and he had bought me a cake that said "Feliz Viaje Bethany." It was so sweet! Everyone in the class gave me a big hug goodbye, and they wished me safe travel and God's blessing. And the cake was awesome -- chocolatey with a little bit of whip cream and cherries. The lesson for those last two classes was using the song "Big House" by Audio Adrenaline, and I had to teach them all the motions. It's actually a really good song for teaching English because the verbs are in present tense or are commands, it's pronounced well, it has simple vocabulary, and it's slow enough that they can sing along. However, I would be fine if I went 10 years without ever hearing that song again -- I've met my quota of Audio Adrenaline for a while. I was telling Dave, though, on the way home that it hasn't hit me yet that I'm leaving. I'm excited for the next phase in my life, but I'm really going to miss Peru.
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