The dirt washes off, the smiles don't

Today was the first day that we went and helped a small town in Rural Peru by building an adobe building for their guinea pigs to live in. It was great work. They had already made some adobe bricks, so we had to hall them a little ways and then use mud as mortar. It is amazing how they can build whole buildings out of dirt basically. There were dogs everywhere running wild around the town; they were very friendly.

Aside from the service work classes are going well. They seem to all be interesting so far. I walk to class every morning, back for lunch, and then back and forth again for my evening classes. All in all it ends up being 3 and a half hours of walking, which is really good because they feed me a lot here. The food is great, a lot of rice, and chicken is very popular. Potatoes, and alpaca meat. I still haven't gotten to eat that guinea pig. soon.