Some Rapid Comments

Lisa is off to bed, but sends her love to her family back at home and will sit down to type if Kate ever surrenders the computer. :)
Since we have started classes, Lisa and I have had far less time to compose our thoughts and our blog entries. Tonight will be brief as I have homework waiting for me and must be up early (although, not HMS early) for class tomorrow.
Today's random observations:
--80's song of the day: Journey, Anyway You Want It
Note: Dad, the Queen on pan-pipes was sold out. I guess you'll have to wait for iTunes. ;)
--We, or rather, Lisa has seen only one cat in our entire time in the country.
--Some effects of high altitude that we have experienced: headaches, joint pain, light-headedness, and tingling (as in when your foot falls asleep) in various places on our faces.
--Greatest altitude reached without the help of a plane: roughly 11,000 ft above sea level.
Note: when Kate and Jeremy went skydiving, our plane took us up 10,000 ft.
--Even though it is winter, because of our altitude and the thinness of the ozone layer here, the sun is very powerful. After only a half-hour or so I burnt the part in my hair. Lesson learned; today I wore a hat.

I can't remember if I mentioned, but we met some local Deaf people yesterday. We even videoed some of their signing. The educational opportunities (ha!) for the Deaf outside of Lima are horrible! And if you haven't read about the education available for the regular hearing kids (it's been in the news due to all the protests), it's FAR worse. I keep saying, "more on that later" but we only have so much computer time. If anyone reads a point they'd like us to expand upon, just comment or send an email. I hope that we are able to meet up again with Jack and Judith so that I can ask them their opinions (perhaps on video) of what they have seen here in Peru. They have a Deaf collegue who we saw briefly at the airport, but it appears she is the exception rather than the rule in this country.

Tomorrow is the last day of Spanish lessons and they have been going well, but the loss of two days has made quite an impact. Also I must admit having Ariel here makes a difference as her Spanish is many levels above ours and we will most likely take advantage of her if things get really difficult.

I'm sure there is much more we should be writing about, but I can't think of anything right now so that's all folks!