So my internet has stopped working at the house so it's going to be a little more difficult now unless it comes back. So yesterday afternoon we went to San Juan Diego, the shelter for children with HIV, which was so awesome!! The kids there were sooo sweet and soo well behaved. First, we did a lesson on nutrition and health for the moms, which went really well. Then we just hung out and played with the kids and colored and talked about healthy foods and really just played outside and games. These kids were so smart, several of them even knew some english. It was so precious how excited they got just when we gave them stickers! Two of them, a brother and sister, I really just want to steal and take home with me!! It is so so sad though because all of these children and their moms have HIV. The moms asked us if we could come on June 29 to basically babysit the kids all day while they prepare for some religious festival, so we are probably going to take the kids to a movie in town...loooove these kids.

This morning we went to a school out of Huancayo in a very poor mountain village called Sicaya. We went around to all the classrooms and gave lessons on washing hands and brushing teeth properly. We did a funny skit which they all loved, and then we actually did fluoride treatments to all of the children and gave them all toothbrushes. We have been purchasing supplies as we see need with all of our donation money. Cool to see where our money is actually going. So sad how horrible all their teeth already are even the youngest ones at like age 4 or 5. Also I saw a lot of them had like scabies all over their hands. After this, we stayed in the older kids class who were learning English for like an hour just individually helping them with their English and going over their notebooks. So precious how much they loooveed this, they want to learn so bad, and it's hilarious to hear them try to read and speak English. I had a lot of fun really teaching them using both Spanish and English. They were so good and attentive and really really loved having us there. We stayed there from like 8:30-12:30 and we checked all of the school rooms to see if they had first aid and places to clean hands and such and the bathrooms. AWFUL! all they have is like a couple holes in ground basically for toilets that don't flush and sinks but no soap or toilet paper or paper towels. So next Friday we go back and bring them all the health supplies that we took note that needed. Then we played with them, volleyball and soccer. Volleyball is huge among girls here and they were soo good! Oh, when we first got there they were practicing a cultural dance from their region for a festival they invited us to next Friday and we started dancing with them trying to learn, it was hilarious! By the way, we are absolutely the ONLY gringos (white people) here, we have literally not met any others in Huancayo, so that's kinda cool. Only Spanish here, that's for sure.

This afternoon we went to the insurance hospital, which is a much nicer hospital where people who pay for medical insurance can go and we taught our first aid lessons to some volunteers from Peru who volunteer at that hospital that will be working with next week in the psychiatric and pediatric wards just going around bringing balloons and being loud and bringing fun around to patients! There were about 30 volunteers who all spoke Spanish and were around our age, and were really cool. Then later we went to a lesson at the Huancayo med school about the health care system in Peru with some of the med students from like 5-7, which was interesting but mostly in Spanish so difficult to understand! A very long day, but I loved this morning because I felt like we really did a lot of good, especially since we are able to see the need and fix it next week. We are exhausted and about to pass out and we are leaving at 7:30 tomorrow morning to go to the jungle for the weekend about 3 hours away, so I won't be able to have internet again until next week.