Home again!

It's good to be back again.... And now I have lots of interesting memories of Peru! I'm glad to have had the opportunity to have gone and experienced another culture, and learned to know people from another country, alongside the Wengers and Lucinda. Chau~ ~ Marie

Goodbye, Peru!

We arrived in the U.S. on September 20. Very tired and very thankful for a safe trip. I thank God that He gave me the chance to spend 6 months in Peru. I learned much. Thank you, Gordon and Betsie, for letting us come, and for patiently helping us learn the culture. And answering all our questions. Goodbye, Wengers. Goodbye, Velille.

You'll stay in my thoughts and prayers.  

~Lucinda

Life is good!

Dishes dishes dishes… part of the glamours of mission life!

 

More mission life glamours: icecream in the plaza!

2 more photos

Darling first graders being trained young in Quechuan traditions.

Visitors from afar…  what an encouragement. Muchisimas gracias por venir, Anna and Serenity.

There is much to do; there´s work on every hand.

Marta and Lucinda peeling tators together,

and Lucinda doing her daily job: laundry.

 

There´s a system to learn with washing clothes, because we try to reuse all the water. Water the garden with left-over rinse water. Fill the buckets in the bathroom with left-over wash water. When those are done, water the grass. Hang heavy stuff on this line. Hang little stuff on another line. Reuse the wash water for another load of clothes, but don´t reuse the rinse water.

Making lunch

June 4th 2010

Once or twice a week Marie and I go out to the ¨campo¨, which means country, and help either Gordons or other friends with digging potatoes. Purple, pink, yellow, and other colors of potatoes too. A day of digging means eating huatia (wä´ teea) for lunch. About 11:00 someone starts building an oven right in the field. First you dig a hole about 6 inches deep and maybe 2 feet across. Then you gather clumps of dirt from around you and build an oven over the hole. Then a hot fire gets built inside, and when it´s down to almost ashes, we throw lots of potatoes in. Yes, they´re still dirty. Next, we hit the oven with our picks to smash it all down to little pieces. When it looks like just a pile of dirt, we leave it to cook, and we go dig potatoes for about 40 minutes more. Then the owner of the field calls everyone to ¨Come eat huatia!¨ and the cook digs some of the tators out and puts ´em on a sack. We all sit in a circle around the sack and eat. Someone always passes out wedges of cheese, which is sorta like the cheese my family makes. There´s no water around. We´re far from any sinks, spigots, or even streams. We´ve gotten used to eating with dirt-encrusted fingers, just like everyone here does when they eat huatia.

Field work

Tachllapampa

Cleaning chicken - an adventure in itself

More photos

Lucinda and Rosa

Relaxing with a game of phase 10

Photos finally!

Our Street

Tuesday night is our "International meal night" Betsie gave Lucinda the role of cook this time. What fun, we ate lentel soup, flat bread, cucumber slices and hot chai - a middle eastern supper.

Lucinda and Marie and others

We are glad to have Lucinda Horst and Marie Imhoff serving here with us untill October. They have fit in well with us and the others around here.

Here, we were waiting in tachllapampa for a ride back to Velille. How's the roasted Guina Pig, girls?

Marie is in the middle, Lucinda on the right, and our friend Marta, from Arequipa, on the left.

We were blessed with a visit from Serenity and Anna, who spent 4 months here a year and a half ago. They came for a 2 week visit. However Anna was not quite all here, can you see whose photo she is holding?