Azul Wasi

Hola,
Lots has happened since I last posted! I have started at Azul Wasi, or Blue House (Azul= blue in spanish, wasi= house in Quechua) and am enjoying it a lot. I've talked to my director some and gotten a basic idea about the formation and idea of this house. My director, Alcedes Jordan is a police man as well as devoting the rest of his life to this project. About three years ago when he was working with the police in Cuzco and dealing with a project that worked with boys living on the streets, he got a picture in his head of a giant blue house where these boys could come and live. The house is completely volunteer run and sponsored by an organization (maybe church?) in England and America. It has been slowly built up by volunteers and will hopefully continue to grow. There are two buildings where hte boys live- one with a cafeteria/place to do homework and 2 bedrooms, and another with more bedrooms, a kitchen, and behind it a pen for the guinea pigs that they eat or sell or something. There are 2 bulls, lots of chickens and roosters, geese, and several dogs and a cat that live on the property. There is also a field for the boys to play soccer and other sports in. 12 boys 6-16, and one 20 year old who has a mental disability and can't go anywhere else, live there. Most of the boys have lost there parents or were just living on the street and had nowhere else to go. One little boy's home was destroyed in the floods in November. My director, Senor Jordan, has devoted his entire life to this project, and told me that the two things he wants to do in his life are keep this project going and serve the Lord in any ways he can.
When the boys have school, we come in the afternoons to help out with homework and then plan whatever we want to. It is a very fun, chill atmosphere since this is just the boy's home and they have already had a full day of school. A lot of days we play soccer, frisbee, or random games. I have brought my violin two days, and hope to bring my host brother's guitar next week. The first day I took the boys that wanted to come out near the soccer field and just played some violin and sang some songs with them. Last week we went early a few days to repaint parts of the house (blue of course). The other project they are working on right now is building a wooden structure to hang those camp shower bags from so the boys can have warm showers (black bags with a shower faucet thing, you let sit out in the sun during the day). It is kind of a strange project and I hope the showers last and work.
Every day when the boys get home from school they eat a giant lunch of soup and then rice and some strange sort of meat. Every day during lunch we have been watching World Cup! The boys are absolutely obsessed with soccer. Today, I was with Valerio (8 or 9 years old?) and we were about to go play some frisbee. He went into his bedroom with his bowl and leftover potatoe from lunch, opened his top dresser drawer, and put the bowl with his leftover lunch in the top drawer, closed it and seriously said to me "Voy a comer despues" (I'll eat it later). While dying from laughter, I made him finish it or give the rest to the hungry dogs waiting outside.
Starting tomorrow, I am going to help out at the school where the boys attend. I'm not sure exactly what it will involve, but I will be there every morning from 9-1, then come home with the boys from school and stay till about 5. After all day in Oropesa with the boys, I have an hour cram packed bus ride home. I reallized today how odd it is that I'm getting used to having people smashed up against me, or leaning against me the whole bus ride home- no sense of personal space here!!

Here is a link to my facebook album- it has some from the orphanage, and some other random pictures from the past few weeks.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=184469&id=501570024&saved#!/album.php?id=501570024&aid=184469&s=0&hash=271eeb848a977dcecea1bd799a9ef307