Finally!
At last February is over!! My God! That was the longest month of my life! Boredom has a strange way of making life seem so, well, boring.
I came into the big city of Cajamarca for a couple days of meetings. The second day of meetings was pretty exciting as we all got to meet the US Ambassador to Perú. What can I say about the Ambassador? Well, he is a politician. No more, no less. Lunch with the regional Peace Corps Volunteers was a good PR opportunity for him. He was nice, polite, friendly. I got to talk to him for several minutes as my boss´s boss introduced me to him as the volunteer furthest out. There were lots of photo ops and a nice lunch. Then he was gone. Actually, the most exciting part of the whole thing was the security team. They showed up about 1/2 an hour before he did to "secure the premises" and were running around, talking into their wrists and pulling people from Peace Corps and the hotel aside to have whispered conversations. Very Secret Service!
I have decided to find a new home for Kíon. It was a horribly painful decision to make, but I think it is for the best. I love him dearly - he has such a great heart - but the stress of caring for both of us is getting to me. It has become too much. I worry constantly about his health, my health, leaving him when I go to town, how he is treated when I´m not there, how he is treating when I am there (treating animals like feeling beings is not a luxury the people in Jocos have). Natalie is helping me find a home for him in Cajamarca. She hasn´t been able to find anyone yet, though. So for now, I´m enjoying the time I have with him and taking lots of pictures of him. If, for some reason, I (we) can´t find a new home for him, I will keep him, of course. But we will cross that road when we come to it.
Classes have started once again in Jocos which means two things for me - one, some of my good friends have returned as they are teachers in Jocos and two, I now have some work to do. We are going to continue the gardens Natalie had with them and I am going to teach English classes for a couple of months. I am also going to tackle a handwashing campaign. I´m looking forward to having some work to do!
My life in Perú continues. . .
I came into the big city of Cajamarca for a couple days of meetings. The second day of meetings was pretty exciting as we all got to meet the US Ambassador to Perú. What can I say about the Ambassador? Well, he is a politician. No more, no less. Lunch with the regional Peace Corps Volunteers was a good PR opportunity for him. He was nice, polite, friendly. I got to talk to him for several minutes as my boss´s boss introduced me to him as the volunteer furthest out. There were lots of photo ops and a nice lunch. Then he was gone. Actually, the most exciting part of the whole thing was the security team. They showed up about 1/2 an hour before he did to "secure the premises" and were running around, talking into their wrists and pulling people from Peace Corps and the hotel aside to have whispered conversations. Very Secret Service!
I have decided to find a new home for Kíon. It was a horribly painful decision to make, but I think it is for the best. I love him dearly - he has such a great heart - but the stress of caring for both of us is getting to me. It has become too much. I worry constantly about his health, my health, leaving him when I go to town, how he is treated when I´m not there, how he is treating when I am there (treating animals like feeling beings is not a luxury the people in Jocos have). Natalie is helping me find a home for him in Cajamarca. She hasn´t been able to find anyone yet, though. So for now, I´m enjoying the time I have with him and taking lots of pictures of him. If, for some reason, I (we) can´t find a new home for him, I will keep him, of course. But we will cross that road when we come to it.
Classes have started once again in Jocos which means two things for me - one, some of my good friends have returned as they are teachers in Jocos and two, I now have some work to do. We are going to continue the gardens Natalie had with them and I am going to teach English classes for a couple of months. I am also going to tackle a handwashing campaign. I´m looking forward to having some work to do!
My life in Perú continues. . .
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