After 3 busses and 36 hours, W squad
finally made it to Trujillo, Peru! Praise Jesus I only lost 1 night of sleep
and got to spend some quality time with the rest of the squad. Once we made it
to our destination we parted ways and our contacts picked us up to go to our
homes for the month. This month our team has been blessed yet again! We are
staying with a family that attends the church we are working with. Their
generosity is astounding; they have given up their own beds for us to be
comfortable. Kaitlyn and I are roommates for the month; first things first as
usual, we got organized!
This month our schedule is a little less
structured but I will do my best to give you an idea of a typical day with team
Battlecry:
6:30am – Alarm goes off… SNOOZE!
7:00am – Wake up finally
7:15am – Head to the roof to exercise
(typically insanity or P90x)
8:00am – Shower… sometimes… and /or get an
earlier start with Jesus time
9:00am – Expecting Pastor(s) Juan and/or
Julian with breakfast
9:30am – Pastor(s) actually show up
9:35am – Eat Desayuno
10:00am – Devotionals with the Pastor(s)
10:30am – Walk the first mile of the day to
the church
10:45am – Arrive at the church
the classroom or clean/organize the school (they are currently doing
construction to make more classrooms)
12:30pm – Eat Almuerzo (sometimes this is
with the kids and sometimes it is just our team with the Pastor(s))
1:30pm – Some days we are able to use the internet
at this time, other days we go back to the classroom, and on Wednesdays we go
to visit the homes of the compassion kids
2:00/3:00pm – Walk the second mile of the
day back to the house.
3:15pm – Freetime – Reading, journaling,
napping, blogging, etc…
6:30pm – Expect Pastor(s) to pick us up
7:00pm – Pastor(s) pick us up
7:05pm – Begin walking the third mild of
the day
7:15pm – Stop somewhere for sena (so far
Chinese, traditional Peruvian street food, and King Chicken Burger have been
our frequent hot spots)
8:00pm – Either back at the church for a
service or “small” group (small is about 40 people), or we visit members of the
church in their homes and pray for them
10:00pm – Walk the final mile of the day…
#4!!!!
10:15pm – Arrive back at home
10:30pm – Feedback and Teamtime
11:30pm – Bed!
Fun Facts about life in Peru:
– Time and schedules
here are even more relaxed than in Ecuador… you can pretty much expect at least
a 30 min delay
– Home here is more
like a really nice house arrest. We are not allowed to leave the house without
one of the pastors… and to make sure this happens we don’t have a key to get in
or out of the house.
– There is a farm on
the roof of our house complete with Guinea Pigs (a common food here), chickens,
ducks, and a pet dog and cat.
– We are in a desert
next to the ocean… I still haven’t quite wrapped my mind around this one…
– Bathrooms here make
you feel like a giant… look for this moths bathroom blog! J
– If you ask what
anything is regarding food on the street you better be prepared to eat it… this
is how I ended up eating a quail egg and sugar cane… neither bad, but neither
of which I would choose to eat again.
make American portions look tiny!
That’s all for now… more on life here in
Peru to come soon!!!
Many Blessings,
Kim
