Music to my ears

I just returned to site after a week spent in Cajamarca for another Peace Corps training - this one was on how to teach the youth entrepreneurship course that all economic development volunteers do, and on project planning skills. It was fun to host all the 19ers up here in the mountains and reunite with the whole gang again.

While most of the training was pretty run-of-the-mill, one day we got to go visit the town of Namora, another volunteer's site near Cajamarca. Namora is known throughout the region as the home of expert guitar makers. We poked our heads into one of the master carpenter's workshops to see what all the hype was about, and learned about the intricate wood-working that goes into a quality guitar.

Nico checks out a guitar in progress

Incredibly complex wooden inlay for the design

Heidi, Steve and I getting a lift out to the carpenter's in the back of a moto-truck