Preperations

  This week you could say was not one of our most adventurous ones. But just because it wasn't adventurous doesn't mean it wasn't necessary and beneficial. We received the lists of all of the people who wanted to sign up for our program and were fairly pleased with the results in all but one area. In our main plant here in Trujillo we had over 60 people sign up for the program, which we all though was quite impressive. It was most likely due to our diligence in waking up early each morning and getting to Danper and talking personally with the workers from the plant. We were able to also talk to them during their lunch breaks and sign them up on the spot for those that were interested.

  One thing that really surprised us and caught us off guard is that after all the time we spent in Huancaquito and out in the fields with the workers, we got a call saying that only one person had signed up for the program, one person! So this threw us through a loop and we really doubted weather or not to even do the program out in Huancaquito or if we should just focus all our efforts on teaching here in the plant. We have decided that we will give it another shot and be more hands on with our approach and we are going back to Huancaquito this week to see if we cant sign a few people up ourselves instead of trusting other people to do it for us.

  We are very behind schedule as far as starting our classes and everything goes, but it has been due to things that are really our of our control. We spent this week preparing a few presentations for our classes and it has really got us excited to start and get our plan into motion. With any luck we will finally be teaching by the end of this week or early next week.

  Tuesday this week was a holiday and we took advantage and went to a movie at one of the malls here, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, and we loved it! Katrina and I despite all the time we spend in the office still find time to have fun and see neat things. We were able to go once again to Huanchaco this weekend and enjoy a little bit of the beach. The only negative thing in our experience so far is I (Dalton) seem to have a small bug problem in my bed and have been waking up with new bug bites every morning that are super itchy and annoying. I have been to the doctor at Danper and I have bought a cream and some pills but so far they aren't proving to be very affective, but that is just the way it goes! Over all its a great experience!