Narcolepsy Continued!

Aaah. So it is, my little problem that I call "self-diagnosed mild narcolepsy" continues. On Tuesday, the boys were taken on a field trip to a private club a little south of Lima for the pool and soccer pitch...of course, this meant that the volunteers tagged along as well.

Everything welt well, boys and I played around in the pool, etc. There were a group of annoying kids that I didn't know who started bothering me and asking me questions like "how do you say this in Chinese" and then started making stupid remarks about love and them being my boyfriend etc. The nice thing was that Noel, this sweet little 11 year old boy who is new to the house took on the role of "protective older brother" and was telling the strange boys off, to leave me alone and leading me away from them. The other glitch was when I was told to fix my swimsuit top to be more modest by my superior...nice situation there. Made me want to crawl under a rock and rot and die. As it is, my swimsuit is halter style and the ties at the neck got loose but I hadn't noticed...but now I'm sure I just look like some hoochie from Canada who doesn't have a sense of appropriateness. Humiliating, but that's okay - just got to keep on truckin'!

Anyway, on the way home I boarded my normal #32 bus south of Lima, I have never boarded this far away before so first of all it took a while to get into Lima proper in the first place. Then I got struck by a wave of tiredness, and the next thing I know I was nodding off and on. I distinctly remember at one point the girl next to me pushing me, I woke up and I guess I was leaning pretty heavily on her in my sleepy state. Oops. Then the next thing I knew again, I was in Magdalena. I still have no idea where this district is in relation to the district that I live in. I looked at my watch, and realized that I had been on the bus for almost 2 hours. In the end, I took a nice little trip past the stop I get off after work, and had to get off at the stop I usually get on in the morning...because I am smart and efficient like that. Oi vay.

Other places I have fallen asleep in Lima are at work during English classes, at work at the lunch table, on the number 19 bus, in the sun and waking up red as a lobster because I got burned, and in my yoga classes. Still hasn't beat the oddness of the places I have fallen asleep in Canada, but it's still only February. Hahaha.


Anyway, I'll leave this blog with a few photos of the Casa Los Delfines where I work!

From La Victoria

This is Luis! To the left of Luis' head is my white handprint in which I drew a very bad hand turkey on it in pencil. I am in dire need of hand-turkey practice.

From La Victoria

Elvis. Such a cute little kid. He loves Enrique Iglesias and for his design project, he made a love story made of photos starting from "Boy meets girl" to "Married with family".

From La Victoria

Yoger. Everybody calls him my brother because he has Chinese like eyes????

From La Victoria

Richard who works in the Panederia. He brings me pastries when I hang outside in the garden smelling the delicious scents and pining for food. Hahaha.

From La Victoria

Juan-Carlos fighting? I guess.....


And...that's it! Not many photos because the day I took this most of the boys were at work but more to come soon I promise!


Besos,
Renee