song of the day: Te amo by makano
This is how I think most of us feel. We don´t exactly know what we are doing, but we figure it out by talking to people... or trying to talk to people. And questions just come up on their own. And logistics are spread so that we can analyze what we should-shouldn´t can-and can´t do. That happened today. hermana luzby took us to a lady in the ward.. who bore a beautiful testimony on sunday (with her daughter) . She cuts hair. We walked over to her house... and in her front room there is a beauty looking parlor. She also sells some hair supplies. We set up a class for her to teach the 30th of july. So we still need someone to teach next week. We were hoping that she could teach next week but she was busy then. we are going to have 3 to 5 people donate their heads (well their hair) so she can show everyone how to cut hair and they can practice on these people. We were very questionable about this idea because it doesn´t seem like that donating your hair would be something someone would want to do... but they assured us that if it is a free haircut then we will definitely have people who want to do that. She can cut men and women´s hair. Some of the materials are expensive like coloring hair, but we are not planning on giving them their own hair cutting kit, but rather teach them beginner skills to cut hair. They also assured us that the lesson in itself would be very good. The point of the women´s group is to have a mother´s support group and all the women trying to learn how to cut hair will be a really good bonding experience for everyone. So then hermana luzby brought us to the relief society president´s house... we want to teach handicrafts... and she makes bags and something else i couldn´t understand. She was on her way to the mercado but very enthusiastic about teaching how to make bags. we didn´t set a date with her because she was busy this next saturday. She offered to do it later in the afternoon the same day as the other class... but we wanted to spread out the classes more. So we think she is going to end up doing it in august. Then we walked to the ladies in charge of the women´s group and relayed this information to her. Me and lauren (the girl i am working on this project with) thought that they should be the ones to find someone to teach the skill for next week. After thinking about it, she said her cousin knew how to do crafty things because she makes something. So we just have to call her and double check on this plan but I think they will be able to put this together. For advertising... they have a car that drives around and says it over a thing that sounds like a radio. So next week we are going to announce the women´s group twice a day over the speaker... morning and afternoon. I am also hoping to go around to peoples´houses and take a second survey of what people can offer to teach and what they want to learn. We already did 30 surveys... but there is a lot more people than 30. I am really excited about this project. We have been receiving positive feedback from the women that are involved so far. They say it would be lovely for the mothers to get together... because that solves the bigger issues. so that was this morning.
Last night we lit of some fireworks and had fruity marshmellow smores with chocolate crackers. The most interesting tasting smore i have tried. but the marshmellows were the best melting marshmellows i have ever cooked. I was impressed. We made a fire out of the bricks and the sticks on the roof. I love that the roof is open. Yesterday I also cleaned some apples with a bucket of water and a couple drips of bleach, peeled them and they tasted so so good. Some of the group is leaving after we get back from machu picchu. one of them is my roomate... and we decided that we need to make a list of all the things that we don´t have here so when we get home and feel like life is just so hard... we can look at that list and say okay maybe its not so bad... I am counting down the days until we go to cusco. I seriously cannnnnot wait. But i don´t want to count down the days because i don´t want time to pass any faster than it should. So far though, it feels like I have been here longer than a week and a half. home feels like so far away. when we were walking to the internet cafe... there was a little girl in a wheelchair and a girl older than her pushing her. The girl in the wheelchair kept peeping her head out from behind to see if we were walking behind her.. her smile was so happy looking. When they were turning a corner... we weren´t going to turn the corner with them... so I sped up and called for them to wait. I gave them 2 bracelets. i didn´t get to see her smile because i gave it to the older girl. I think they sat on the streets to beg for money because she had some centimos in her lap. This is why we made the bracelets. so we can make people smile. because they will forget centimos... but bracelets are harder to forget... at least thats what i think. The boy that was scared of me yesterday when we were running... had his head out of a truck and waved to us with a huge smile... when i recognized him... i was like ah hola!! blow kiss... and he covered his head.... haha so cute.I keep rubbing my contact out of my eye. I need to not do that... because I need to see out of both eyes. Ashlee (our country director) was telling us about one of her friends who has a degenerative disease... contacts and lenses cant help her see because it something with her rods and cones... so she has restrictions on her lisence. She is a mom with kids. so i can only imagine how difficult it would be how to navigate and read with limited vision... to me that seems impossible. but just when those kind of things seem impossible... that person has the most positive attitude... and just a go-getter, and that is how this girl is. I look up to her in that way.
This is how I think most of us feel. We don´t exactly know what we are doing, but we figure it out by talking to people... or trying to talk to people. And questions just come up on their own. And logistics are spread so that we can analyze what we should-shouldn´t can-and can´t do. That happened today. hermana luzby took us to a lady in the ward.. who bore a beautiful testimony on sunday (with her daughter) . She cuts hair. We walked over to her house... and in her front room there is a beauty looking parlor. She also sells some hair supplies. We set up a class for her to teach the 30th of july. So we still need someone to teach next week. We were hoping that she could teach next week but she was busy then. we are going to have 3 to 5 people donate their heads (well their hair) so she can show everyone how to cut hair and they can practice on these people. We were very questionable about this idea because it doesn´t seem like that donating your hair would be something someone would want to do... but they assured us that if it is a free haircut then we will definitely have people who want to do that. She can cut men and women´s hair. Some of the materials are expensive like coloring hair, but we are not planning on giving them their own hair cutting kit, but rather teach them beginner skills to cut hair. They also assured us that the lesson in itself would be very good. The point of the women´s group is to have a mother´s support group and all the women trying to learn how to cut hair will be a really good bonding experience for everyone. So then hermana luzby brought us to the relief society president´s house... we want to teach handicrafts... and she makes bags and something else i couldn´t understand. She was on her way to the mercado but very enthusiastic about teaching how to make bags. we didn´t set a date with her because she was busy this next saturday. She offered to do it later in the afternoon the same day as the other class... but we wanted to spread out the classes more. So we think she is going to end up doing it in august. Then we walked to the ladies in charge of the women´s group and relayed this information to her. Me and lauren (the girl i am working on this project with) thought that they should be the ones to find someone to teach the skill for next week. After thinking about it, she said her cousin knew how to do crafty things because she makes something. So we just have to call her and double check on this plan but I think they will be able to put this together. For advertising... they have a car that drives around and says it over a thing that sounds like a radio. So next week we are going to announce the women´s group twice a day over the speaker... morning and afternoon. I am also hoping to go around to peoples´houses and take a second survey of what people can offer to teach and what they want to learn. We already did 30 surveys... but there is a lot more people than 30. I am really excited about this project. We have been receiving positive feedback from the women that are involved so far. They say it would be lovely for the mothers to get together... because that solves the bigger issues. so that was this morning.
Last night we lit of some fireworks and had fruity marshmellow smores with chocolate crackers. The most interesting tasting smore i have tried. but the marshmellows were the best melting marshmellows i have ever cooked. I was impressed. We made a fire out of the bricks and the sticks on the roof. I love that the roof is open. Yesterday I also cleaned some apples with a bucket of water and a couple drips of bleach, peeled them and they tasted so so good. Some of the group is leaving after we get back from machu picchu. one of them is my roomate... and we decided that we need to make a list of all the things that we don´t have here so when we get home and feel like life is just so hard... we can look at that list and say okay maybe its not so bad... I am counting down the days until we go to cusco. I seriously cannnnnot wait. But i don´t want to count down the days because i don´t want time to pass any faster than it should. So far though, it feels like I have been here longer than a week and a half. home feels like so far away. when we were walking to the internet cafe... there was a little girl in a wheelchair and a girl older than her pushing her. The girl in the wheelchair kept peeping her head out from behind to see if we were walking behind her.. her smile was so happy looking. When they were turning a corner... we weren´t going to turn the corner with them... so I sped up and called for them to wait. I gave them 2 bracelets. i didn´t get to see her smile because i gave it to the older girl. I think they sat on the streets to beg for money because she had some centimos in her lap. This is why we made the bracelets. so we can make people smile. because they will forget centimos... but bracelets are harder to forget... at least thats what i think. The boy that was scared of me yesterday when we were running... had his head out of a truck and waved to us with a huge smile... when i recognized him... i was like ah hola!! blow kiss... and he covered his head.... haha so cute.I keep rubbing my contact out of my eye. I need to not do that... because I need to see out of both eyes. Ashlee (our country director) was telling us about one of her friends who has a degenerative disease... contacts and lenses cant help her see because it something with her rods and cones... so she has restrictions on her lisence. She is a mom with kids. so i can only imagine how difficult it would be how to navigate and read with limited vision... to me that seems impossible. but just when those kind of things seem impossible... that person has the most positive attitude... and just a go-getter, and that is how this girl is. I look up to her in that way.
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