Vida es bueno.

In the lottery of host families, I hit the jackpot. They are young, beautiful, and so in love. My host mom just turned 30 and is 5 months pregnant. When she was working, she was a teacher for a modern kindergaten where she used a hands-on, active teaching style with her little ones. She is perfect for me because I speak just like her 4 year olds and she is used to desiphering jibberish. My host dad is an adorable little round faced man who loves soccer. He is an engineer, and designs machinery to use in the andean mines. They have been married three years and are anxiously awaiting their first child who they just found out last week is a girl. Lucky.

They like talking to me and ask me a lot of questions about Oklahoma. They love the fact that we have indigenous people there like they do here. They are always very nice and patient and just sarcastic enough to keep things interesting. They know when to give me my space though, which apparently is rare among Peruvian host families. A few of my friends are struggling to find time to themselves with their over-eager or over-demanding families. I haven´t had one single problem with mine.

I´m starting to get to know Cusco a little better and I love it. It was wonderful and much needed to see some familiar faces on Skype last night, but I´m not homesick yet. I am so happy here.


I have class now, but I have much more to say so check back for an update later!