Wednesday 2nd June - Thursday 10th June

Wednesday 2nd June
After kindergarten we went to lunch just off the main square and were sat out on the balcony. All these school boys started trying to make us come down and were smiling and waving at us, we were like your children go away!
It was Corpus Christi in the main square which is like a late Easter. A massive statue from each Church is carried from the church to the main square by a load of men. These Jesus´s are absolutely huge and look like they weigh a tonne, it was really hot and a lot of the guys were sweating and staggering, apparently they quite often get pissed on route though so that might have partly been the reason why. There were bands playing and dancing men and women, and loads of the men in Ukuku masks. We started taking photos of one of the Ukukus who then started showing off and grinding on the stick he carrying. Next minute he had grabbed Domenica and she was dancing in the middle of the parade with him!
Andy, who is the owner of McCoy and lives in England came out to Cusco this week and was with Jess when we went to meet her.
We went to Remar and did lots of skipping outside. I taught them the game where one person stands in the middle and swings the rope round and round and everyone has to jump it until there´s only one person left.
On the way home in plaza San Francisco which is just up the road, there was a massive food market where everyone was still celebrating Corpus Christi and getting drunk, they were eating the traditional meal of chicken, guinea pig, seaweed and fish eggs, (We didnt try any) and everyone looked wasted, One guy sneezed and fell backwards off his chair dropping his beer all down his front!
When we went to dinner tonight there was a magician going round the tables doing a little performance. We were like "oh no don´t look at him don´t make him come over" but he did, and he was insane! The magic was so good, i couldn´t get over it!

Thursday 3rd June
Went to Paucabamba with the Loki lot again, we arrived in this field and were given spades and axes and were literally told to dig up rocks. We were stood in the middle of this massive field like..."what?!"
We ended up doing a massive human chain collecting rocks from the top of the hill under the mountain and passing them down to the bottom. The Peruvian guy next to me kept going "Ah SPider!" so i´d nearly drop the rock.

Friday 4th June
There was a girl we hadn´t seen at Remar before today called Flavia, she´s so cute and looks so grubby. I had her on my shoulders once and after that she wouldn´t let me put her down.

Saturday 5th June
Went quadbiking today for Jess´s Birthday! It was so much fun. I had this massive quadbike called the "big bear" which had a huge engine! The guy who owned the place went infront on a motorbike and lead us all along these dirt tracks and cross country and through villages and things. At one point we reached this big field and i just revved off round it and everyone followed thinking it was part of the route! It was so good we got to go so fast!
When we were going round the track at one point me and Jess nearly came off the path! She took the corner wide so i followed her, but she skidded round and so did i, and instead of breaking i may have accelerated a bit into the back of her. When we stopped we were literally an inch away from the drop at the edge.
Afterwards we got to go in the pool at the place we got the quadbikes from but it was absolutely freezing so we weren´t in for very long!
That night we went for a posh meal at the Chi Cha restaurant and went out for Jess´s birthday. Laura and i were not feeling great though, and I was having massive stomach pains so we finished the night a bit early.

Sunday 6th June
None of us were feeling great today, I was still having the stomach pains and Domenica was getting them now too. We had a lazy day in Cusco and an early night.

Monday 7th June
Was still feeling ill so had to miss kindergarten and went to the doctors, it turns out the pains were caused by an ameoba i had picked up in Puno! Gross.
The place we went to dinner tonight had a really friendly waiter, he was so enthusiastic, he had curtains and every time he spoke he would nod his head and his curtains would flop all over the place, he kept getting our order wrong. When he asked us where we were from and we said England, he said "Toffee!" And he asked us a traditional dish, we told him fish and chips and he went "ahhh. I dont like it, but its traditional!" And smiled and nodded some more.

Tuesday 8th June
We are doing fruit and vegetables at the kindergarten so the year 3s learnt "banana" and coloured in a picture and the year 4s did "apple" drew it and stuck bits of red paper on it.
Played outside again at Remar and then came in and did colouring with the books and pencils Lara had bought them.
After Remar laura and i went to book tickets to Arequipa at the bus station for this weekend. We tried to find Alonzo who had offered us tickets with Terra lines, a really good company, for noly S/70, but having told us he was always there, he wasnt. We got pointed in the direction of his brother though but when we found him he was busy with customers so left, cause we didnt really know what he could help us with because he was with a different company. A few minutes later though he appeared behind us asking what we´d wanted, i think he thought we were after a date with his brother and ended up leaving without any tickets.

Wednesday 9th June
We are going to teach the year 4s the story of the very hungry caterpillar and create a big caterpillar to hang from their ceiling, so today we got each table to papier mache balloons. It was so messy, and i dont think they really understood why we were doing it, but they enjoyed themselves.
At Chinchero we are teaching them the weather and want to make a weather mobile so had them papier macheing balloons too!
Laura and I went to book tickets at the bus station for Arequipa, and Alonzo, who had offered us tickets with Terra Lines last time for S/70 had been lying, because it turns out Terra lines dont even do that journey! We booked it instead with Cruz del Sur.

Thursday 10th June
We had the year threes decorating butterflies we had drawn for them today, and the year 4s did another layer of papier mache all lesson.
After Remar we came back to get ready for Arequipa. When Heather left for the jungel she left some bags in our rooms, she was due back in Cusco tonight but we didnñt think we were going to catch her so we took her stuff to Mccoys for her to pick up. We were due at the bus station at 8, but were running laate and were just leaving Mccoys at that point when Heather appeared. We had a really quick chat with her but then had to rush off. Lara wasnt coming with us this weekened but was going to Macchu Pichu so we had to leave her which was really sad.
By the time we got in the taxi we were in a bit of a state because we were running so late and we were all screaming at the driver to drive faster, he was just dordelling along! We then got stopped by traffic lights and he started honking! Domenica was like "don´t honk when its a red light, but when you can drive, DRIVE!"
Then, having told us he new where he was going, he stopped to ask for directions! We were not happy. When we did pull up at the bus station though in hysterics, there was hardly anyone there and everything was very calm and quiet.
When we tried to get on the bus though, the guy checking our tickets asked for our passports, which we did not have because we werent leaving the country. He was like i need ID, you should never travel without your documents, we were like "we´re coming back!"·
When we got on the bus there was barely anyone on and we all got to spread out to have two seats each. We played bingo ( I embaressed myself because having completed a line i started shouting Bingo, but it turned out you needed all the numbers) and we got to watch a film. It turned out to be a pretty decent journey.