All is well here, it is hot and sunny and we have this lovely view from our bedroom window on the roof.
its a grand way to start a day, especially knowing that the volcano could errupt anytime soon...
we´re settling in, got to show what we were really made of when we hit arequipa´s finest discoteque last week with all the germans. we blew them away with our anglo saxon moves.
the weird meat got to dave at first but all´s well now. think its best to steer clear of 3 day old rice with nondescript meat stirred in, even if it does cost 20p.
We are doing summer school in a little town outside Arequpia called San Isidro.
We cram ourselves onto a little bus every day and attempt to teach hyperactive children from 9am-1pm, they´re made even more exitable by the millions of bananas we feed them in an attempt to get them on our side, this works for precisely 10 minutes. The only other way to placate them is just to carry as many of them as possible at the same time, which they find great fun- it does, however, make you look like a child smuggler. To the right is Alex, as you can see, he eats quite a lot of the bananas, but he speaks like a 1920´s new york gangster so alls forgiven. he is possibly the funniest penguin child we´ve ever met. 
Its all exhausting but they are lovely, mostly. This is Miguel, we think he´s a bit simple. but it is fun to dress him up in our clothes.
This week we have been doing our own music class, which involved making little guitars and trumpets and attempting to get them to play drums on buckets. It has been sort of a success....No Phil Collins´in the making though.
Today we took them all to the cinema to see the Princess and the frog but they seemed more interested in the handryers.which is completely understandable as the one toilet/hole in San Isidro doubles up as a kennel for around 20 dogs.
Thats about it, we´re off to the Colca Canyon this weekend to see some big birds and eat some small mammals. Bye for now from Alex´s dad.
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