Mi Familia Peruano

Guillermo is a karate teacher in town and one of his students is the national champion of his age. The incredible part is that his dad is a cab driver and can´t afford to pay for instruction, so Guillermo teaches him for free. He´s a pretty cool dude, who loves teasing everyone. I suppose I can relate.

Adrian is cute as hell. Not much to say about a baby, except that he stares at me constantly. Even more than the other gringos staying here.

Speaking of which, when we picked up Harry (from Colorado) from the airport Guillermo said he looked like an angel because of his long blonde locks. As soon as he spoke I had a different opinion. My American buddy is Spicoli from Fast Times. Holy crapoli, I´m living with Spicoli. But it´s working out good because he has a healthy sense of adventure and about as much Spanish as me, so we´ve been heading out to town together. He´s going to be here the whole time I´m here.

Right now there is a couple from MIT, Michael and Lisa. Michael´s dad is from Peru, so he speaks Spanish fluently . They´re also teaching at the orphanage while they´re here, which has been pretty cool to have an interpretor tell me what the kids are saying.

The amount of energy the kids at the orphanage have is insane!! We weren´t really briefed on what we need or should do, so today we walked in and they asked us to teach math to a class. They have the greatest range of ability, so it quite unruly. I do enjoy playing futbol with them though. Not only are they better than me, but my lungs don´t last more than 30 seconds of running. Thank goodness Peruvians are so short. Being a giant is the only thing I have to back up my smack talk.

Harry and I are going to try teaching them some science and history. If any of you folks have some suggestions I´ll be more than happy to read.

Once I get some money I´ll go to an internet shop and upload some pics fors you folk. And I´ll tell you about my trip to a pre-Inca site and Lesson 2 (aka first night on the town).
Peace out!

written by  ryanmyers on January 19, 2009 from Huancayo, Peru
from the travel blog: Ryan's First Sabbatical
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