Well, we finally made it to Huancane after waiting for the bus for a few extra hours. Monday we got to hang out with the Huancane Girls and the Moho Team and talk about our summers - the ups and downs and what all we saw God do.
Tuesday we had competitions for the End of Summer X Games - Texas (Conima) vs. Georgia (Huancane and Moho). Our team won the fastest mountain hike competition, Huancane girls won the trice (pronounced tree-see) race, and we won the volleyball game. The trice race was probably the most fun. Trices are bicycle driven carts used like a taxi. One person rides the bike part and pedals and two people can ride in the cart attached to the front. John and Pastor Ruben found two drivers who let us borrow their trices for our race. We raced through the main street of Huancane, down and back. It was a lot of fun, but it was hard uphill. Unfortunately our opponents had gotten to practice the day before and they took notes from the Peruvian trice drivers and got off and pushed up the hill. It was a lot of fun though. And Ruben drove us back down the road afterwards. After the volleyball competition we played more volleyball for fun and then Andrea made rice pudding at Ruben and Louisa´s house. We sat around and ate it, then went to dinner. After dinner we came back and gathered in the common room in the hostel. At Jeremy S´s suggestion we had a foot washing ceremony, or whatever you want to call it, for John, Sonia and Pastor Ruben. We just washed their feet and each prayed over them. It was really cool. Lots of tears. I would have been fine if it weren´t for Edith, Ruben´s young daughter, but when I saw her face I started crying too. I think we all were by the end. I´m really glad we did it. Afterwards we played cards and watched Kung Fu Panda :)
This morning we got up and packed to head to Puno for our vacation time. There was supposed to be a transportation strike that would keep us from coming, but it didn´t end up happening, which we were very grateful for. We got here in time to move into our rooms and go to lunch. On the way into town in the van we saw a white couple on the street and we all stared at them because we haven´t seen other white people in so long. Then we realized we are just like the Peruvians. We stared and Jeremy told them ¨Hola!¨ It´s so strange being in a tourist city. There are so many people here who aren´t Peruvian. And it is weird thinking about how everyone here just thinks we are other tourists. We kind of want to tell them, no, we´ve been living here for 2 months and know a lot more about the real Peru than all the random tourists. But it´s nice being in a new place and being able to enjoy nicer things. We had a delicious lunch near our hotel. The best part was the appetizer of avacado filled with essentially a chicken salad. It was really good. Then we walked around the main tourist street. Now I´m back in our wonderful hotel. It was just built in the past year or two. It´s really modern and we got a really good deal on our rooms. Then our room got upgraded to a suite. So, we finally get to have definitely hot showers and there is a jacuzzi tub I know we will all enjoy before going home. It´s so nice to relax after this summer and get to visit cool places here in Puno.
Tomorrow we are going to the floating islands and then Friday we are going to see some ruins. I´ll let you know how it is!
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