Orphanage

Today we went to an orphanage that was home to 670 orphans. They were from little babies to 17 year olds. They are either orphans, abandoned, or their parents didnt have enough money to keep them. How sad. I was with a group of 7-9 year old girls. We brought coloring books, crayons, and nail polish. They loved the disney princess coloring books, and loved the nail polish. A girl ended up painting my nails too, but I already scraped all the polish off, they were blue, haha! But the orphans loved us Americans and the older ones take English classes, so some of the older kids talked to us in English. It was a lot of fun, I want to go back! They were so cute, and it was so sad at the same time but they were happy just to be there and for us to be there. They sold us lunch at the end, trying to raise money for one of the orphans to have a kidney transplant. I had a hot dog. It was fairly similar to one in the US, but with different tasting ketchup of course. We met the guy who started the orphanage and then we all gave him money for the surgery, he was so nice and grateful. What an experience!

I just put up pictures of the orphanage

http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg58/rlwheele/Peru/
password rachelinperu

hope you like them!

Last night we had another one of my least favorite meals, which was some sort of cornmeal type stuff covered with spaghetti meat sauce, and parmesan cheese. It is kind of bland, I dont know why she picked my two least favorites to be the first repeating meals! But I think tonights meal will be good, and she already cooked tomorrows meal and it smelled delicious so I am looking forward to that! Tomorrow we dont have anything planned, just homework and starting our final paper.

Last night we went to a casino, and I lost money in blackjack (booo)... but it was fun. This older man sat beside me with a gap hoodie on pulled tight over his head, and he sits down and pulls out a huge huge wad of 100 sol bills and just throws them on the table like they are pennies. So he keeps playing with all these big bills and I start talking to him, because he started talking to me about blackjack in english so I figured he was from the states. So he tells me he is from key west but has lived in that hotel for 8 years (I think it is like a hotel but apartments too), and married 5 times and owns big planes and leases them out, got kicked out of college 4 times, and won 280,000 from the casino in the last month. So it was an interesting story.. and was trying to teach me how to have the right mindset of how to play poker. So thats my casino story. You only have to be 18 to gamble here so thats why we could get in.