Maddie-

                        Peru is beautiful. The mountains here are amazing along with everything else. There are many plants and vegetation here, which are all green. The weather is pretty good. It will rain every once in a while, about once a day at the least, but today it hasn’t rained at all. The hostal is small but very homey. There are many plants with in our hostal including a peach tree and an avocado tree. Ollantaytambo is fun to be in. All the people are nice, except for a few older women. The children are friendly and very cute here. Also, my host family really does make me feel at home and they really are another family to me. My family includes two parents, one son, two daughters, and an exchange student. The food is great. Most of it is chicken though.

            Today was great! We got to go to Patacancha today. In Patacancha we learned about how weaving is done. Weaving takes a lot of patience and very skilled hands. The women were all very nice but I couldn’t really understand them because the spoke Quetcha. We also got to continue our work on the preschool. The preschool is always fun and I always have a good time. Abril, a little girl “helping” in the preschool, is very sweet and energetic. Abril helped a few of us build three tables and some cubbies today. We are very good carpenters. Now we are at a rest time, more like a play time, and then we will go to dinner with our families. Tonight we are having spagetti and cake for Michael’s birthday. Then, we get to dance with Michael… Well we’re having a wonderful time, and I can’t wait to see you all.