update 6

hey guys,

hope you been checking out the blog cause theres some exclusive content there!

i did quite well on the test by the way!


this morning i presented for the spanish class and turned in my 2 page single spaced hand written SPANISH essay of death! it was moderately coherent. that concluded the spanish class except for our final next wednesday... we´ll see how that goes.

when the girls finally get here i´m going out to lunch for the first time since we arrived, so i´m excited for that adventure. then this afternoon i do my presentation again in the culture class but this one should be easier cause i´ll have my powerpoint presentation with me to use. and in all seriousness, the project turned out kinda respectable. ICK

tomorrow we do another stove building project in another tiny town somewhere outside of cusco. thats gonna be fun again. in hindsight, the program really wasn´t at all as focused on helping people as i had thought. the ngo part of the program is, they go to school in the evening and do community service type work during the day. o well.

then, early saturday morning we leave for machu pichu. don´t get me wrong, i´m super excited for that, but its bad timing. we heard abuot this peruvian rave/trance party on saturday night thats taking place IN THE RUINS at Saqsaywaman. how cool would that be. "ya, this place is cool, good atmosphere, but this one time, i went to a party inside the ruins of a civilization from 500 years ago!" so i´m kinda bummed to be missing that. but machu pichu is gong to be sweet. since its SO much lower in altitude, we´re going to be able to BREATH, which is possibly what i miss the most from home (sorry jack, its not you). the altitude here means i have`nt gotten to play any football. which has been an astronomical disapointment. one time i tried but i was dead in a matter of minutes. o well again.´

suddenly it sounds like i`m complaining, which isnt my intent, so here are some more cool things.
last night, at the dinner table crystal, my sister, was asking to go to some party and the parents were worried about her being around people who were drinking. they even said the famous dad sort of line, "im not worried about you, i÷m worried about who youre with and whos going to be driving." the whole while i was sitting in my seat trying not to laugh out loud.
this coming monday and tuesday are the peruvian independance days so theres going to be lots of festivities going on, and parades. there was even a parade today in preparation for parades to come.
o, i think i forgot to tell you about last saturday night. diego, the brother, held a party for his freind having a birthday. there were 20 people coming and they were an entier 1.45 hours late. when they finally got there, they ran the doorbell and then all 20 people walking in. i was standing at the door as the stampede walked by and i was just a greeter. anyways. this was 1000% different than any us house party. noone was trying to drunk. we just sat around in a 20+ person circle talking to the people in your area. we drank some, but just causally. then the birthday girl decided to stay at the house rather than go to a discoteca (which disapointed me, but i went alnng). so they turned on the music and we danced and chilled till 3 in morning. i was exhausted but i had such a blast. i`m sad i can`t hang out with them again this saturday night.

ok, i think the girls arent coming or somehow i missed them, they`re 40 minutes late. jerks!

i miss and love you guys, talk to you soon
Darren

ps dad, send emails to me, no need to bother rebecca.