Un Techo Para Mi Pais

My next adventure will take place in Lima from 12-17 of August. It's called Un Techo Para Mi Pais, which literally means "a roof for my country". It is a week long service project that will build over 270 homes in Lima and Pisco (a city a few hours south of Lima). It's led by Peruvian college students. There are gonna be a ton of volunteers, I hear. I signed up today and am really looking forward to it. Although I am not looking forward to sleeping on a floor for 5 nights, but it's nothing I can't handle. It will be really interesting to do home construction in Spanish. But when I talked to a staff member while signing up, she assured me by saying that another American signed up and he doesn't speak ANY Spanish, so I feel better already. In fact, I think this will be a good for my language skills, kinda like Spanish boot camp :)

Feel free to read more about the organization online. It's a pretty neat idea in my opinion, started in Chile in the late 90s, in Peru only 3 years ago. They've been doing really incredible work building houses in the area where the huge earthquake hit this time last year, south of Lima.

Well, off to buy some work gloves, borrow a sleeping bag, then hang out with my Aunt and cousin who are ending their Peru trip with a weekend in Lima. Nos vemos <3