This is how the world works in Peru: when you are in the sierra, where it is cold, the hot water will inevitably not be working. When you are on the coast, sweating in the full-on summer heat, your hostel shower is certain to produce only boiling hot water. I'm not sure which of these cases is worse... but maybe I'll spend some time pondering the question over the 39+ hours I'll be spending on a bus in the course of the next six days.
This blog is coming to you via the wi-fi of the Chiclayo Starbucks, where some 12 of us 19er community economic development volunteers are camped out, since we have an hour to kill before our overnight bus to Lima. Our group is reunited this week for In-Service Training (IST), our first Peace Corps training event since August. The past few days were spent here in Chiclayo, accompanied by 12 of our community socios, learning the technicalities of running community banks. Now we're off to Lima for the standard safety, medical, etc. sessions and a brief reunion with our original host families. All the week's fun will culminate on Friday when we each present our community diagnostic reports to Peace Corps staff - 30 pages of Cajabamba info is now typed up and ready to go, and I'm happy to say I will never have to deal with this project again.
Blog-post frequency has been suffering recently - so much travel! But I'm okay with that; adventures abroad are a big perk of Peace Corps life, so why not enjoy it?
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