en Huancayo

Hello, my friends and family!

I had a tamale and manzanilla tea for breakfast! I am definitely not in Kansas any more! Life is good, with much disorientation and adjustment. My family is fabulous. We are having a great time together, getting to know each other. After lunch today, we are all going to a feria, which (I think!) is a large outdoor market. I will know more this afternoon, though, won´t I? The climate is great--what a change to have no heat and no air conditioning and be comfortable adding or taking off a layer. And the land around here is beautiful--mountains all around.

I apologize for the lack of interesting stories. I´ll try to generate (or remember) one or two for my next posting.

Tomorrow I begin my work with orphans. They are not exactly the babies I had hoped to be working with, but I´ll go where the need seems to be. Tomorrow we´re doing art! We´re drawing a picture, then gluing small bits of paper to the drawings--I´m sure there´s a name for the medium/approach, but I sure don´t know what it is! They clearly don´t know who they´re working with--art!! I´ll bet I get transfered to another subject the next day!

Take care all, and keep thoughts and prayers coming!