The rainbow center

Today was our first day at the rainbow center. Woke up around 7:30 in order to be ready for the day at the center at 9 to rain rain and more rain, but a beautiful view of the mountains with snow in the background. Much like my worries last time of how I would react to seeing all the kids, they were once again put to shame. You are immediately greeted like one of them and you feel welcome and appreciated straight away. We stayed in the shadows today as we will in the beginning of next week and just watched what was going on. We spent an hour on brain gym (morning ritual to get the day started) in the morning which due to rainy weather had become a play session in one of the classrooms instead, where we were both picked on and had to put on our best show of making different animal noices, a fierce dog myself, if i may say so.

For me especially, I was looking forward to seeing how many of the students i would recognize and how many of them would recognize me. All of them did, and even remembered my promise of being back in two years time. There was surprisingly few new students at the school and so it was great to see someone like Gervacio be his usual self and Sharon boogi-ing down to anything resembling a beat. The stuff we painted last time, the swings etc., still looked as colorful as ever but could do with a little retouch. CIS?

Had two hours of spanish lessons this afternoon. Been a while since weve had to use our brains for anything challenging so now im stuck with a headache and if possible, worse spanish skills than this morning. Elizabeth, one of the teachers at the center is coming over for dinner and some beers later today, and i´m heading to Cusco tomorrow morning at 7 to watch Liverpool-Everton as James, british volunteer, has convinced me its the right thing to do. Followed by a rugby match and then the market by which time the girls will have made their way there. Will then check into a hostal and have a hopefully fun night out in Cusco.

Alex :)