If you're so inclined...

You can always write me or send a lovely little care package!
Lisa D'Alessio
c/o South American Explorers
Choquechaca 188, No. 4
Cusco, PERU

In other news I have found several leads in the world of volunteer work, one at a battered women´s shelter and another doing field research for a fellow SAE volunteer who is starting an NGO in a rural community in the Sacred Valley. Today I´ve resolved to talk to my boss and request less hours here at SAE.

Today some good friends are coming into town from Aguas Calientes and I cannot wait to see them- Lizetta a good girlfriend here is pregnant and they are coming to see her doctor and find out if she and her husband are having a boy or a girl- so exciting!! I can´t wait to see them and have a nice dinner out, or maybe in the house tonight depending. Also probably going out later with other friends to a party at La Retama. Tomorrow I´m supposed to go to the Valley and do some research for SAE but need to be back by 3pm for a briefing on my jungle trip that leaves early on Sunday!! Can´t wait to get out and do something really different...the last jungle I was in was Northern Argentina months ago when Claire and I went to Iguazu Falls together. It will be nice to be WARM again!!

Then next week its just a few days of work and then I go to Puno with David and a group to visit Lake Titicaca and do more SAE updating. Yay for travel...then Caroline is here at the end of the month and its Initi Raymi, big Fallen Angel Party and who knows what else!!