The rest of April

After Semana Santa, my APCD came for her second site visit. It was pretty much a disaster due to my host family telling lies. I was already thinking of moving, but that pretty much gave me no choice. I still like my host family most of the time, but it's just frustrating how much they try to take advantage of me, especially when my bosses come. The move is slowly happening because the room I was going to move into was occupied and we had to wait for the man to come back from Cajamarca to move his stuff into the downstairs room. I am going to miss my old room though just because I've been there for over a year and a half. My new room is bigger so I can cook in it, but it doesn't have a window or balcony facing the street. I'm very nosy and I love to stare out my window onto the street, so I'm going to miss that! I'm currently in Cajamarca buying stuff for my new room. It seems kind of silly to buy stuff when I have so little time left, but I need to be able to cook and have a place to put my clothes. I went to the grocery store today with the intention of buying food to cook. I forgot that I don't really know how to cook and I came back with marshmallows, chocolate milk, pam spray, nesquick, sillao (I don't even know what that is!), and clavo del olor (I don't know what this is either, all I know is that you use it to make dulce de berenjena). I also bought some avocados and onions to make guacamole. The only thing I can think of cooking are eggs and desserts. Hopefully I'll be inspired once back at site.

Besides waiting to move, things at site are finally starting to pick up. The escuela started going full day so I marched over there and made my schedule with the teachers. Of course it rained the next day so they decided to only go half day the rest of the week and the next week, but luckily all of my classes are in the morning. For now I'm doing a self-esteem taller to both 5th grades, and I gave in and agreed to teach English to both of the 6th grades. I am probably going to work with a few other grades but I need to figure out my schedule in the colegio first. The colegio was still only going half day until this week!

Another birthday passed, my golden birthday in fact so now I am 27. I never understood why people didn't like to say how old they were, but the older I get the more I understand. I wasn't expecting much yet even with low expectations you can still be disappointed. In the morning one of the families invited me over for a surprise breakfast of cake and empanadas, my favorite! That was really nice and unexpected. Another lady invited me to my favorite dessert of dulce de berenjena. I didn't tell my host family this year because last year they knew and didn't even wish me a happy birthday. They found out though and my host mom did wish me a happy birthday, but I still went to bed hungry because they didn't make an egg for dinner, just rice. Let's just say I'm glad this was my last birthday in Peru.

I haven't taken too many pictures lately because I haven't been entering the colegio. I don't want to get bombarded like last year, with everyone posing for pictures! The other day I was finally able to check something off my list of things I wanted to do. I finally saw a cow give birth. I was really lucky because this cow lives super close, gave birth in the afternoon, and it wasn't raining! I was a little camera happy.

Cutting the sac with scissors to get the process going. Those are the little legs sticking out.

The cow was like this for a good half hour. We finally had to go hide until she started pushing some more. Apparently cows get embrassed too.

It's head emerged.

Coaxing the cow to push.

Just hanging.

One last push and it came flying out.

It's a girl!