{"id":41090,"date":"2019-04-10T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=41090"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:48:45","slug":"our-trip-to-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=41090","title":{"rendered":"Our Trip to Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been back from our two week volunteer trip to Peru for a while now, and we thought it was time to share it with you.\u00a0 Especially since both of us are about to head out again.\u00a0 As always, there were 20 of us in our volunteer group, and this year we aged in range 4 to 94.\u00a0 Everyone did his or her fair share.\u00a0 The four year old, who happened to be Little Miss, worked her heart out as any four year old can.\u00a0 The 94 year old, a retired Baptist minister and World War II vet couldn’t be held down either.<\/p>\n

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\"Peru<\/p>\n

This year we worked in Trujillo, which is about an hour’s flight out of Lima.\u00a0 It is on the ocean, but sort of looks like being on the moon.\u00a0 There was not a lot of vegetation, trees, flowers, etc.\u00a0 We divided our team into three groups, and we each had a different assignment in a different part of the city which has a little over one million people.\u00a0 One group worked on building a house for a church’s caretaker; one group worked on building a soccer (football) field at the Catholic university.<\/p>\n

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Our group worked on building the third floor of two schools.<\/p>\n

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Basically, Mom and I, along with the others in our group, did heavy manual labor for a week.\u00a0 It was our job to get the supplies that we bought carried from the schools’ courtyards to their third floor.<\/p>\n

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We loaded thousands of buckets full of stone, sand, and bricks and used a pulley that we rigged up to get them to the top.\u00a0 Here Mom is on the second floor, and my dad is on the third floor.\u00a0 She was guiding the bucket as it was being lifted on the pulley.<\/p>\n

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Those loads were heavy, and we were working in the hot sunshine, but it was wonderful.\u00a0 We worked with some locals whom we hired, and it was a great way to spread good will.\u00a0 Developing a relationship with the locals is almost as important as the work we do on these trips.\u00a0 It helps them have a better view of Americans, and that is part of our goal.\u00a0 Here my dad and Steve are carrying concrete mix.<\/p>\n

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Debra Hupman, who is Mom’s kitchen <\/a>designer, worked her tush off.\u00a0 This is her and her husband Steve’s fifth year going with us.<\/p>\n

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We were welcomed there with a festive gathering that involved music, dancing, singing, and food.\u00a0 The areas of the town where we worked were poor but happy and content.\u00a0 They need very little to be satisfied with their lives.\u00a0 They have their families, their church, their friends, their music, their work, and their simple homes.\u00a0 Their lives revolve around these things.\u00a0 Everywhere we go in the world has one thing in common – everyone wants what is best for their children.\u00a0 It’s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

\"Peru<\/p>\n

We were there for Valentine’s Day, and they celebrate with hearts, flowers, and candy just like we do.\u00a0 We saw couples all dressed up to observe the day.<\/p>\n

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After our week in Trujillo, we flew back to Lima, which is at sea level, long enough to catch a plane to Cusco, which is 11,000 feet above sea level.\u00a0 We spent a day there for our bodies to acclimate before going to Machu Picchu, one of the man-made wonders of the world.\u00a0 We will tell you about out time there next week.<\/p>\n

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Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been back from our two week volunteer trip to Peru for a while now, and we thought it was time to share it with you.\u00a0 Especially since both of us are about to head out again.\u00a0 As always, there were 20 of us in our volunteer group, and this year we aged in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41634,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions\/41634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}