trabajando con la mision
we arrived in Cusco last thursday night after a very long day bus from Arequipa that lasted 11 hours. we arrived at the house of our friends, a missionary couple who have two sons, and they fed us dinner and helped us find a hostal. we explored the San Pedro market on Friday with Nicole (the mother of the family) and on saturday morning we went to the local market where all the people from the surrounding villages come to sell their goods. we bought fresh cheese and yogurt and lots of vegetables to last us the week, and it was quite cheap. we hope to go to this market every saturday morning, which is the only day that vendors are there.
we moved hostals from the original one because the room was very cold and drafty, i was boiling water for tea and filling Als water bottle with hot water and sleeping with that in my bed. it is still a bit cold, 45-65 degrees depending on if there is sun, and coming from the coast where there was so much direct sunlight and we were sweating all the time to here up in the mountains at 11,000 feet has been quite a change.
downstairs of the community house where the families live here at the mission there is a piano! and all kinds of really good music books like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms. i have been playing at least an hour or two each day, many times in which Al has patiently listened and waited for me.
on monday we started work at the schools, Al is at the Ciudad de los Muchachos (city of the boys) which is an almost self sufficient place where there is an orphanage, school, farm, bakery, carpentry shop, claymaking, they only buy a handfull of things, everything else they grow or produce themselves. he loves it there. he will be assisting teaching english and also painting the outside of the building which is badly in need of a few coats.
i have been helping at the girls school, assisting in the 4 and 5 year old rooms. yesterday was the start of the new school year and it started with a Mass said by Fr. Giovanni, the founder of the mission. i am reading his book right now which tells of how he met Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa, and all kinds of stories about the mission when it was just getting started. the mission is called Servents of the Poor of the Third World. there are sisters, priests, and 9 families that work as missionaries here. really interesting community, very faith filled. very soon we will go to adoration with the parents of all of the families upstairs in the chapel next to our friends apartment. even in the fan on the way to school we say prayers and a rosary, and on the way home the girls sing hymns.
espero que todos esten bien.
besitos de Cusco xx
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