Day 8

Another busy day here in Cusco. This morning I started back in the garden, I tilled bed 9 and 10 with a pick, shovel, and rake. It was pretty slow going for most of the morning becuase the ground hasn't ever been worked below 2 or 3 inches so I was breaking into packed clay and rock for most of the morning haha. After I got bed 9 done I went down and got a wheel barrow full of sand and brought it back up to the garden and worked the sand into the soil. I'm hoping to change the soil consistancy to something a little more hospitable for plants haha. I also manage to break one of my holding posts on our marking lines, and now I have to re rope off bed 10 haha, my bad. Juan was with me most of the day in the garden he is laying pipe so we can have a water outlet up near the the plants, we are currently running a house from the front of the school, which is about 50 yards away, and considering the water pressure to begin with it doesn't take a genius to figure out that this set up just isn't going to cut it haha. After the garden I had my computer class at 12pm. It was an over all success. I manage to get all of the kids to open my documents, create a new folder, open word, create a new document, save it in their new folder, close word, and reopen my documents, find thier file, and open it, then close everthing, and shut off their computer. As for the document they created. I taught them all the parts of the computer -mouse, keyboard, etc...- and then I taught them the same words in English. So I managed to get every kid to the end of the lesson, which isn't to bad considering my level of spanish, and their level of English. aka.... none existant haha. When class was over we went back down to town for lunch, then back up to the village for house visits. Today we gave this old woman a bed. We brought it in and put it together for her. It was so amazing! She has literally nothing. She has a one room mud-brick house, with a dirt floor, a few mesh bags, and a giant pile of plastic bottles. Other than that nothing. When we talked with her we found out that she doesn't know how old she is or when her birthday is, we are guessing she is around 70, she has a few children but all of them have moved to the city and don't really have anything to do with her. Her daughter has an alcohole problem and sometimes comes to her home and steals what little money she has. She has been walking the hour and half trek up the montain everyday with a pack full of ice cream to sell to the kids at the school. When we finished with the bed she was so greatful, she started crying and saying that god will bless us all, she hugged and kissed each one of us with tears in her eyes, before tonight she has been sleeping on a piece of cardboard she found, and a blanket that she made around 20 years ago that is falling apart. It was truly an eye opening experience to exactly how much we have. Tomorrow is my horse ridding tour so I'll let you know how it goes.