To pick up from the last blog, my friend did have her baby. I only ended up looking after Grace for a few hours on Saturday as the baby was born in the middle of the night and they ended up taking her to hospital with them as the labour was going quite quickly. I did give her the raspberry leaf tea tablets I had taken.
The rest of the month was busy with the institute running. This module, Rich was teaching or attending classes each of the weeks, sometimes both classes per day, which is the most he's done in a module so far. So it was a busy time. I enjoyed having a reason to bake almost every day. By the last week, we had about a dozen students. Many can only come for a week or two, so each week there's coming and going.
Lucas always struggles a bit when Rich is so busy as he's normally around in the house every day. He's not very keen on changes. Last week, we went on holiday for almost a week to Arequipa to visit friends and places we knew from living there. Lucas spent the first 5 days saying he wanted to go home and the last day saying he wanted to stay. He's still struggling with Spanish which is why we've decided to put him in school. The school year starts in March here, and Peruvian law says children should start school at age 3, but we thought he wasn't ready then and had the idea of starting him half way through the year. He's still not overly excited by the idea but we think it will help his Spanish a lot which will help him understand what's going on more and be able to talk to his friends. There are only 4 other kids in his class so he won't get lost in the crowd. I'm going to take him tomorrow to see what happens as I'm just as clueless as he is to how school works here. Then he'll start on Monday. It's a culture shock for us as it seems very different. We got the list of school supplies he has to have. Wow! It's crazy what each child needs to provide - everything for every possible craft they will do all through the year to toilet paper, towel, soap, soap dish, tooth brush, paint, glue, cotton wool, wipes, tissues, puzzle, wooden game, cushion, the list goes on... I now understand why people here struggle so much financially in February especially if they have several children.
July was also the start of the new presidential term. Not much to report. Hopefully he will work on the level of crime especially in the north. In Arequipa, many people asked us about Trujillo as they had heard how dangerous it was there.
Since the institute finished we seem to be struggling with illness in our family. Started off with Lucas having a bad cough, then Emily had a high fever so they both got antibiotics for a throat infection. A week after finishing them, Emily had a high fever again and got a second dose of antibiotics for another throat infection. Rich then had a day of pooing and puking. While in Arequipa, Emily had a fever one day, vomited another day, then had a rash on her torso. Since getting back Lucas had diarrhea one day, first time since being toilet trained, yuck! Now Rich has a cold. I've managed to stay healthy thankfully! But it would be very nice to have a week with no-one having anything. I'm looking forward to the routine of school, although we're all going to suffer having to get up in the morning. None of us are morning people!
Will let you know how school goes and anything else interesting as it happens. Thanks for being interested in what's going on here in Peru.
The rest of the month was busy with the institute running. This module, Rich was teaching or attending classes each of the weeks, sometimes both classes per day, which is the most he's done in a module so far. So it was a busy time. I enjoyed having a reason to bake almost every day. By the last week, we had about a dozen students. Many can only come for a week or two, so each week there's coming and going.
Lucas always struggles a bit when Rich is so busy as he's normally around in the house every day. He's not very keen on changes. Last week, we went on holiday for almost a week to Arequipa to visit friends and places we knew from living there. Lucas spent the first 5 days saying he wanted to go home and the last day saying he wanted to stay. He's still struggling with Spanish which is why we've decided to put him in school. The school year starts in March here, and Peruvian law says children should start school at age 3, but we thought he wasn't ready then and had the idea of starting him half way through the year. He's still not overly excited by the idea but we think it will help his Spanish a lot which will help him understand what's going on more and be able to talk to his friends. There are only 4 other kids in his class so he won't get lost in the crowd. I'm going to take him tomorrow to see what happens as I'm just as clueless as he is to how school works here. Then he'll start on Monday. It's a culture shock for us as it seems very different. We got the list of school supplies he has to have. Wow! It's crazy what each child needs to provide - everything for every possible craft they will do all through the year to toilet paper, towel, soap, soap dish, tooth brush, paint, glue, cotton wool, wipes, tissues, puzzle, wooden game, cushion, the list goes on... I now understand why people here struggle so much financially in February especially if they have several children.
July was also the start of the new presidential term. Not much to report. Hopefully he will work on the level of crime especially in the north. In Arequipa, many people asked us about Trujillo as they had heard how dangerous it was there.
Since the institute finished we seem to be struggling with illness in our family. Started off with Lucas having a bad cough, then Emily had a high fever so they both got antibiotics for a throat infection. A week after finishing them, Emily had a high fever again and got a second dose of antibiotics for another throat infection. Rich then had a day of pooing and puking. While in Arequipa, Emily had a fever one day, vomited another day, then had a rash on her torso. Since getting back Lucas had diarrhea one day, first time since being toilet trained, yuck! Now Rich has a cold. I've managed to stay healthy thankfully! But it would be very nice to have a week with no-one having anything. I'm looking forward to the routine of school, although we're all going to suffer having to get up in the morning. None of us are morning people!
Will let you know how school goes and anything else interesting as it happens. Thanks for being interested in what's going on here in Peru.