random stuff..

There´s not much to write for the last few days day. After i wrote on wednesday afternoon we all went to a pub trivia night at the Muse Too in Urubamba. The guy who owns it is Autralian but he live here and runs the cafe. There are always volunteer people in there eating and hanging out. They are mostly British people with ome group called tapas or something. They look way more volunterrish than we do what with their scruffy hair and Peruvian clothing! hehe. Anyway the trivia night for that night was run by one of the British kids and the ¨general knowledge¨ questions were more like English knowledge (they weren´t expecting non-englih ppl to turn up). My table came second last - it was quite disgraceful! But it was quite fun and they make the yummiest choc brownies, one of which i ate with glee!

I headed back with the first bunch of people as i was sick and had the usual late night pitch black walk along the road past the corn field. I´m getting used to that walk now...the good thing is when you step in something squishy you really have no idea whether it is mud or poo so you just walking and keep stepping in it!

On wednesday we presented our design to the community leaders and ended up with quite a compromise. It´s very interesting that we are continually reminded to be respectful to these old men who it and eat our lunch everyday and turn up late, but sometimes i wonder where the respect for other people is?? for example the women in the community who, as far as i can tell do far more work than some of the men who should be so respected.

The end result is that the old men want to keep the exisitng mural which i literally just an amatuer painting of a big corn, an onion, a carrot and a fist. It is history to it though because they painted it in 1970 when the community rose up and reclaimed the Hacienda back from the governement. Apparently a short film has been made of the story and was played at many film fetivals around the world. I can´t remeber the name but will try and see it while i´m here.

On thursday afternoon some did teaching english through sport at the Collegio. I chose that one becasue i thought it was most likely i would get to run around outside and have fun. At first a whole bunch of kids turned up and did flash cards for a while and then the teenagers turned up and we did englih outside and then after a while we couldn´t resist the pressure any longer and of course ended up playing soccer for an hour. I had not run around so much since being here and i was so puffed out. But it was a lot of fun and good practice for our gringoes versus locals Cup Challenge on the last weekend in Huran.