Vocabulary, New and Review

By semantic domain:

1. not quite awake; pillow; blanket

2. thin air

3. headache; sore throat; cold; cough; sneeze

4. change currency

5. steep hill; out of breath

We’re still recovering from traveling from 8am yesterday to 7am today and the altitude change to 9,000 feet. We had not counted catching a cold into the mix, but so far the situation is livable, and we expect to be ready to roll on Monday. Ginny gets the award both for sleeping the least en route and for being the most awake when we got here.

Pastor Samuel met us at the airport and brought us to the workshop center, fed us breakfast, and has gotten us settled in. We slept most of today, the only interruptions being for lunch and a walk downtown—down, down, down town, and of course up, up, up home—to change our money and buy some throat lozenges.

It’s so good to be back here. We have enjoyed our mealtime chats with Samuel and Rosa, and even though we had to take the walk really slowly—up or down, steep steps are a challenge when you’re not used to the thin air—and communicating with merchants is a challenge, we can’t help but be grateful to God and his people for bringing us here.

The schedule has been set—this is Peru, so the medium could be jello, concrete, or anything in between—for a two-day workshop in the town of Huanta (“an hour or so” north), another two-day workshop, this one for women, back here, and then two days of the festacanta (music festival) before we return to the States.

Tomorrow we will go with Samuel and Rosa to one Quechua church here in Ayacucho in the morning and another in the evening. Meantime we hope to get our minds together enough to keep the camera with us and use it.

¡Buenas noches!