Well the kids helped us to paint two walls today. One blue and one green, for ocean and jungle scenes. Our friends that we made at the home in Lima should be here around the 27th of October to start on the murals. Besides the painting we going to spend alot of time with the children at the home which was great! Not sure what tomorrow's plans are. Maybe we'll paint some more or start cleaning!
Here's an update about us. We are in Chulucanas, a city in the province of Piura, which has about 30 thousand people. We are staying in the bishops home. It is a busy place! We have every meal with a handful of priest and one nun.
We have seen some interesting things here... like pet mini monkeys... yeah. They're so cute! We have already made a lot of friends around the town. Particularly people who work in the hardware stores and around the market! The town seems very busy but in comparison with Lima its pretty chill.
Its extremely hot here during the day. Like the desert and it gets pretty cold here at night and in the early morning. There aren't many cars here, most people use bikes, motorcycles, or moto taxi's, which is like motorcycle turned into a trike. The driver sits on the motorcycle part and the riders sit in the back trike part. Some people have running water, but most people on the outer parts of town don't and they use donkey's to pull carts with big barrels for water to their homes. There are donkeys EVERYWHERE.
The bishop is going on a trip to the mountains from Monday till Tuesday to celebrate and recognize the 25th anniversary of a Franciscan order in their diocese. He invited us to go along with him! We are very excited and hope to be able to go. We agreed to help out a friend both of those days, so we'll see if it happens.
Everyone is extremely friendly here. It truly is just a really nice small town where everyone knows everyone. We feel very welcome and are so happy to be here. Come visit us!
Andrea and Kelli
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