Peru

Changed Plans & Unexpected Opportunities – Part 2

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This is a continuation of the first post, Changed Plans & Unexpected Opportunities – Part 1

Also thanks to Billy’s delayed naturalization to become a Peruvian citizen (missed that story?), we were able to travel to Kimo and Ica with a small group from Scotland and England for two weeks.

In the 12 years that I have volunteered/worked with Scripture Union, I have only been to Kimo four times. I can’t tell you how many times I have been to Kusi or Puerto Alegria, but I’ve only been to Kimo four times – in 2001, 2008, 2011 and this trip. Billy has been many, many times through trips with Ward Church and then while working here, but for some reason it just wasn’t on my itinerary very often.

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Changed Plans & Unexpected Opportunities – Part 1

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If there is one thing we have learned over the past few months, it would be that is hard to make plans while working with the Peruvian government.

Over the past few months, you might have heard us mention that we are planning a long trip to the US to do some fundraising for Scripture Union and that said trip was supposed to take place this fall. Obviously, plans have changed.

Billy is in the long process of applying for Peruvian citizenship and then will hold nationalities in both the US and Peru. There are many reasons why he wants to become a Peruvian citizen, but the biggest being not having to deal with the complications and restrictions that come with having residency cards (ie – Green cards as in the US) Technically, we are here under the category of “Religious, non-Catholic” and with that come different rules and regulations. Yes, there are 2 types of residency categories for religious groups – Catholic and everybody else.

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Weekend in Ica

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Last weekend we headed south to Ica for a couple days before our last 3 teams of the year.

We weren’t going with a group so it was a weekend to visit the boys and staff at the home. Billy hadn’t been to Ica since the end of May and I was only there a couple times this summer.

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Magnificent Puno

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After the busy work team season, Billy and I took a few days to explore a part of Peru that we had never visited. We were able to get a great deal on airline tickets ($46 round trip each!) and headed south to Puno for a few days.

Puno is the city on the shores of Lake Titicaca. There are so many stories, facts and tour guide things that we learned while we were there, but I think this time we will let photographs speak for themselves about the beauty that is the Puno region and Lake Titicaca.

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End of the season

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About two weeks ago, our final group for the summer returned home and life here went back to normal.

Thankfully, this summer there were no major health issues with any of the volunteers, weather cooperated and domestic planes were almost always on time to depart and arrive and there weren’t road strikes that prevented travel — well there was one group that left Lima at 8am to go to Kusi and didn’t arrive until 4am the following day. A trip that takes about 9 hours took them almost 20, but there was no danger, just a lot of waiting.

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