Day 5

Hi everyone! It's 8:00 here and we've all had a good day of work and shopping. We finished up a lot of projects today, and with the inccentive to get done early so we could shop resulted in us assembling four bunkbeds in the smaller room while others also layed down the flooring; and despite having the majority of us in there we still had enough room to work around eachother. I think the most dreaded project of the day was making the goodie bags for the youth camp. Danielle thankfully figured out the way you're supposed to fold them - 20 down 180 more to go.

After lunch we took a bus ride to the market. Alyssa said it looked like a record for how many people were on the bus. It was everybody up against eachother, people sitting on others, and people hanging out of the door. I was beside the girl who worked on it, opening the doors for everyone, and she was trying to talk to me but it wasn't the most successful since we knew equal, but very little amounts of spanish or english. But she was laughing at a few of us trying to pronounce things. We all split up when we got to the market. We all found that some of the vendors were very easy to bargain with, and others were not at all. But over all a good shopping trip, we came out with a bunch of bags and I think everyone found what they were looking for.

We still had a couple of hours to kill while we waited for the bus so we walked to the town square and looked at the glowing Jesus on the mountain and went to a smoothie and juice place. I almost ordered hot milk, but thanks to Carson's spanish skills I was able to know that before ordering. So instead I ordered what I thought was hot chocolate but instead was coka tea with a bunch of other items in it. As soon as we walked outside we were swarmed by people trying to sell things - mostly paintings, We got to talk to a few of them for quite awhile and get to know them. Their names were Willy, Ceasar, and Alfredo. Ceasar liked Heidi's blonde hair because he said it was very different from the women's hair in Cusco. Alfredo was young but a very good sales person. His initial technique was throwing a toque on Heidi and running away. In the end though, we bought the toque and a few uneeded llama key chains. According to one of the artists Danielle was a bad person and a bad tourist for not buying his work. While standing around we had a man come up to Heidi and I and point at us and said "La Cucaracha!" Which is when we realized that that was the same man on the train from Machu P:icchu who taught Heidi, Brianna, and I the spanish songs!

On the bus ride back we listened to some Disney songs, and now after supper we are all playing cards! Tomorrow will be finishing up some small things and all of us are heading to one of the orphanages, it should be fun.

Buenos Noches!
- Lindsey