Home Again
At long last, I’m back home.
For the past 10 months of my life, I’ve lived and worked in Cusco, Peru and visited numerous places throughout the UK.
My team and I returened from Peru in April, and for the following two months, we were sent to our home churches and to other churches who have a connection with BMS (the chairty we worked with), talking about our experiences to churches and schools. It was the most exhausting time of the whole gap year. Yet, I learned a lot from it. It also gave the four of us a chance to get Peru out of our system. It pushed me right to my limits at times, and, as a result, I’ve grown closer to God.
Now, it’s all over, and it was definatly worth doing…but only once!
Right now, I’m attempting to proccess all that I’ve seen and done during the most random, challenging, exciting, tiring time of my life so far. Not an easy thing to do.
Thankfully, I’ve now got a lot of time on my hands in which to attempt it!
Some photos from ‘the most random, challenging, exciting tiring time of my life’:
Machu Picchu
Children’s Holiday Club
A Monkey in the Amazon Rainforest
The ‘A-Team’ About to do an Assembly in Warwick
Andean Weekly!
This week has been less touristy, we’ve mostly been observing some of the projects that we’ll be getting involved with. For example, Amy and I where taken to Humbotio, a small village just outside of Cusco, where BMS do some schools work. We had our first experience of riding in a combi (bus)! It was over-croweded and we had to stand up for the whole 45 minute trip, but there where no tourists, and it felt like a genuine Peruvian experience
Humbotio is surrounded by beautiful mountains, but the atmosphere was quite heavy. We went to the school and Amy and I assisted a member of BMS staff who was taking an English class. At one stage, this involved us getting on our hands and knees and pretending to be animals. The age group we were teaching was 8-9 year olds. As we were leaving, I noticed a picture of Jesus on the wall, a very sterotypical picture of Jesus. The white Jesus, with a perfect centre parting and two white children on His knee, a blonde, blue eyed girl and a boy, all of them laughing together. What message does this send to the people who aren’t white, blond or blue eyed? Does it show that Jesus came for them too?
I mentioned the atmosphere in Humbotio was heavy, I think this is because there is a lot of darkness there, hidden under the surface…but God is breaking through, with the schools work and a new clinic, which is going to open there soon!
Spanish lessons! We’ve started spanish lessons this week; I took spanish at GCSE, but I’m still finding it hard. It’s been good fun though at times, and it’s been nice to do it as a team. We’re all progressing and we’ve got another two weeks of lessons, so we should be a lot more fluent by the end…I hope!
Prayer points:
– Language learning
– Liz has been feeling ill latley, so prayer for her would be appreciated
The Game We Play 