We arrived safe and sound in Lima yesterday afternoon, along with the Texan team we’ve been working with all week. We enjoyed an afternoon of relaxing and a little shopping and eating in a beautiful restaurant (thank you team!) and said goodbye to them last night. Klista and I are staying in an amazing hotel room – it’s actually a suite with a jacuzzi and a kitchenette. The nicest hotel room I’ve ever stayed in! I don’t feel like I’m on a missions trip! Katie has a separate room a couple floors down.

Today is our free day before we work at the homes for the rest of the week. We woke up expecting to take a tour of Lima and we found out that the team’s flight was canceled so they have been here all day today as well! We skipped the tour, went to Starbucks and read, and went to lunch with the team. Then Katie and I walked around with Phaedra and Danae, two Greek sisters that are near our age, and then I came back to the hotel with Phaedra and Danae. We’re resting a bit and then going back to the mall. This evening the team is (hopefully for them) flying out and we the interns are going to dinner with some of Guili’s friends.

Whew! I’m sorry that wasn’t better quality writing. I just wanted to write a quick update. For the rest of the week we will be working mainly at one orphanage and also a baby home. We have Friday off to pack and get ready because we fly out at midnight. I’ll finally be home around 2:30 or 3:00 Saturday afternoon! I’m not looking forward to the flight. I was totally fine flying until the flight to Lima itself. There was a lot of turbulence and other people were really scared and that made me scared. Flying to Cusco and back was hard for me. Please pray for the anxiety I am experiencing about this next flight and pray that I will be able to sleep!

I am excited for the rest of the week. And today I was quite excited because I went to a bookstore in the little mall by the ocean. I am running out of books to read; I’m almost finished with my second one since I got here. I haven’t had much time to read obviously but I needed to get another one for the rest of the week and the flight home. So I looked in the little English section in the bookstore and ended up buying G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday and a collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Buying books is such a high for me… haha.

Okay, well hopefully next update I’ll have some more pictures for you! Thanks for your continued prayers; I’ll see a lot of you very soon!

Anna

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