Day 3 - One Common Goal

Sunday, April 12

On my third day in Peru the group of 8 volunteers finally met during a breakfast followed by a half day meeting, ending with a group lunch at the hostal and city tour. It was great seeing what a diversified group we are.

• Laura (Minnesota) – A retiree who used to work in tourism has done 2 other volunteer projects with GV (Romania and Vietnam) and will be participating in the Peru program for 3 weeks.


• Lisa (Boston) – a 47 year old business consultant, wife and mother of 3 signed up for a 2 week program with her daughter. A couple of years ago she set a goal of completing volunteer projects abroad with each of her children when they turned 12. She´s completed 2 with each of her sons and now we have the joy of having her daughter Libby with us.


• Libby (Boston) – the 12 year old daughter of Lisa is currently missing classes to participate in this program and gaining a new perspective on life while earning an education which can’t be taught in any school.


• Josephine (Wisconsin) – My roommate who goes by the name of Jozi. She´s a hard working 18 year old High School student who had one class left for graduation (gym) and decided to complete a 6 week volunteer program instead. She took her savings and paid for the program fees after getting school approval.


• Dan (Wisconsin) – a 26 year old male nurse who until this meeting had never met Jozi, it turns out they live about 1.5 hours away from each other. He´s currently in the process of settling down to create a family and has signed up for a 3 week program.

Amazingly we´ve managed to create such a great bond which keeps us going through our long days.

Mili (team leader) did a fantastic job in getting us all acquainted. We introduced ourselves, learned about what could be expected, rules we need to follow and selected our morning, afternoon and evening projects. Yes, evening ;(. We decided we´d like to go to Macchu Picchu for a weekend and are required to make up the hours. Although exhausting, this turned out to be GREAT. During my morning shift I help out with the Kindergarten class and in the afternoon I do the Siblings Program. Tuesday and Thursday evening we all teach conversational English to the High School girls. Tuesdays after conversational English we do the “Dulces Sueños” project which consists of putting toddlers to sleep. Once our lunch at the Hostal was over we were picked up for a city tour (not included in package). This was great for a couple of reasons; we got to know the city of Lima in which we´d stay for the duration of our trip and gave each of us an opportunity to bond.

We ended the evening with Mili taking us to dinner at an amazing pizzeria restaurant which was a hit with everyone.

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