This week…

This week I came back to site after being on vacation with my parents for a long time (two weeks!), and I received quite a warm welcome from many. ~When she saw me, the English professor had some students pick cilantro out of the school's garden to give me! Everyone is so generously she I …

The Million Dollar Question

What is sustainability? What is the point of doing anything if it's not sustainable? If something isn't sustainable does that mean it has an inherently negative impact? Why are there more questions than answers?!?!?! And shoot, if anyone can answer these burning questions of mine then by all means, slide into my DMs. [Working definition of …

Así Es La Vida/ C’est La Vie

One of these days I'll write about a day in the life but for now enjoy these gems of things I've done in the past few days: ate sheep heart my 10 yr old, black hair, dark skinned Peruvian host brother was mistaken for my son was mistaken for an orphan adopted by my host …

My Timeline

I’m sharing my timeline through the Peace Corps application process in hopes that it will give future applicants an idea of what it could be like. Of course I’m sure this looks different for every applicant. The one thing I was told before applying was to be patient and that the process takes a while. …

Oh, The Places You’ll Go

My packing list!

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

In honor of my however many months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds I have currently been in Peru I would like to share a small list of things that brighten my day. It really is the little things in life that matter, y'all.  ~The navy blue and jet black all at the same time …

Chocolatadas

Christmas in Peru is the season of chocolatadas and Pannetone. I've probably eaten more panetón this month than I have in my whole life. The only person I know in the US to eat it is my grandmother. Some of my friends said they didn't even know it was sold in the US. I never …

S’MORES!

The preferred way to cook here in rural Peru is with wood. A lot of people do have gas stoves too, but they say food cooked over wood tastes better. I love when it's cold at night and I go to sit in the kitchen while my mom makes dinner to warm up by the …

Day 15

I finished my peanut butter. RIP. But I also did a bunch of other cool things today!  Earlier in the week I had tried on my sister's polleras, the big colorful skirts they wear here. She told me to let her know when I wanted to wear one and shed lend it to me. Super …

A day in the life…

So no day has really been the same for me since I've been in site but I can tell some of what I've been doing.  My family usually wakes up at 5 to tend to the animals or harvest potatoes before breakfast. A lot of Sierra families get up early, sometimes to do work before …