Mas! Mas!

More things happening!

-We have a garden! -----> That's me kneeling in the dirt. I stole the photo from Sarah's blog, as my camera still doesn't have the right parts...hopefully they will come in a week.

-When I was sick, my host mom rubbed an egg all over me and then had me spit on it three times. It's a shamanism thing, that the egg absorbs all of your bad energy. Apparently I got sick because I went to a graveyard on my first day and I was a stranger, so a bad spirit followed me home and made me sick. Sometimes they rub really sick people with a guinea pig and then kill it afterwards and rub its blood on the part of the body that hurts. You know, the wierd thing is, I did feel better afterwards, maybe it was the stimulation of the nerves.

-There have been two farm trips to learn about composting, the joys of shoveling manure, planting veggies, ect. At one, we watched a cuy(guinea pig) be killed...they crushed its little skull in, I couldn't watch. At the other we ate amazing lasagne and played with an adorable puppy.

- I went to the pool with my host family! It was at this beautiful place owned by my host dad's sister, with a nice pool, lots of mandarin, lemon, and lime trees, which we picked from, and a zip line high above the ground, which I rode. I almost got to ride a horse but they couldn't find the saddle. I'll post photos when I get my camera parts from home. We also drove by a huge lake and ate some strange fruit and fried bread.

-When we drive through the mountains, we are literally in the clouds sometimes. The ground just drops away beneath you. It's so, so beautiful.

-I learned how to wash my clothes on a big flat slab outside with cold water, rubbing it into the stone. It's seriously hard work, and it took me two hours to do a few articles of clothing. I've already ripped a pair of PJ pants doing it.

-We've been working a lot in our classes, and in less than two weeks we find out our sites. So much has been going on that I can't even remember it offhand. I've been filling up my journal at an alarming rate. Tomorrow we go on another field trip, so there will be more to write about.

Hasta luego!