Peru Blog
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We started off the day by working with our families. Each of our families are dedicated to different professions around town. Some of us helped sell things in their stores, while others helped collect crops in the fields, and others helped out with tasks within the home. Then, we ate lunch with our host families and had a bit of free time before meeting up at Tumy House to go over to the primary school.
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We started our day today with a religious service, a "misa", as they call it here, at our local church in the main plaza of Ollantaytambo. We discovered the differences between local services and services in the United States – while people here are equally, if not more, devout Catholics, there were vast differences in the music and decorations, with more innovation and nature.
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Greetings from Peru! Today marks our first full week in the Sacred Valley. Our time here has been filled with lots of adventure, laughs, and Spanish speaking. Each day of the GEO a different pair of students are chosen to be leaders of the day. At the end of the day, those leaders have write a summary or our experiences. Below you can find summaries from this past week. Enjoy!