a southern hemisphere day...

actually i'm very close to the equator... but anyway...

if you're curious.. heres how my typical week/day looks

Mondays/Lunes
715am wake up.. breakfast (usually consists of toasted bread w/ cream cheese and tomato or cereal with soymilk and banana/mango/orange)
745 catch a taxi for s/4 (usually with another volunteer so it's only s/2) to el porvenira
8 - 1230 teach english classes
1 -3 lunch (siesta if i'm lucky) the volunteers eat at one of SKIPS volunteer's homes... usually includes rice, beans, and/or potatoes, some sort of meat... and yummy aji (spicy stuff).. oh and jugo (juice)...
3 - 6 afianzamiento (extra classes to help kids, tutoring/homework).. helps me work on my spanish alot
6pm catch a taxi/combi back home
7-9 Shadow boxing and baile class @ gym
10 shower and then anything from dinner (which usually is some sort of broccoli pasta thing i make), to studying spanish, to hanging out with house mates, to watching a movie in spanish, to talking with brentt/a/britta/michael/mom...

Tuedays/Martes
same as monday pretty much.. except no 7-9 gym...

Wednesdays/Miercoles
715am wake up.. breakfast
745 catch a taxi to el porvenir
8 - 10 teach english classes
1015 take a combi back home s/1
1030 - 3pm running errands, eat lunch
3-7pm work on summer camp stuff (I'm THE coordinator of the summer camp for kids 6-11, theres 350 kids in this age group)
7-9 Shadow boxing and baile class @ gym
10 shower and then anything from dinner (which usually is some sort of broccoli pasta thing i make), to studying spanish, to hanging out with house mates, to watching a movie in spanish, to talking with brentt/a/britta/michael/mom...

Thursdays/Jueves
8 - 130 wake up and surf class
130 - 330 combi to spanish class (1 hr) and back home
330-7pm work at home all day.. summer camp stuff, translating stuff into english (or proofreading english), studying spanish, etc.
7pm - 10 anything from dinner, to studying spanish, to hanging out with house mates, to watching a movie in spanish, to talking with brentt/a/britta/michael/mom... and exercise

Friday/Viernes
8am spanish homework
1030 -1 leave for SKIP... 1130 meeting
130-3 lunch
3 - 6 afianzamiento (extra classes to help kids, tutoring/homework).. helps me work on my spanish alot
6pm catch a taxi/combi back home
7-9 Shadow boxing and baile class @ gym
10 shower and then anything from dinner (which usually is some sort of broccoli pasta thing i make), to studying spanish, to hanging out with house mates, to watching a movie in spanish, to talking with brentt/a/britta/michael/mom...

Saturdays
715am wake up.. breakfast
745 catch a taxi
8 - 1230 teach english classes
1 free to wander peru

Sundays
free to wander peru

wandering peru: thus far.. been to chan chan, huacas (sol y luna), huanchaco, various really cool/amazing marketplaces, malls, and going to chiclayo this weekend...