Thoughts of the Day

It’s been a little over a week since I arrived in Peru, and I am more-or-less readjusted to life here in Callao. The family continues to treat me well as always. My work at the school is also going very well. In addition to technical support work, I am starting to work on a project to develop a computerized system that will allow the school to better maintain the information it has about its students. The project will certainly be a big challenge for me, but hopefully it will produce a usable product for the school.

Some other random thoughts:

• The weather in Callao continues to be sunny and hot with highs in the upper 70s everyday.  That might sound like ideal weather, but the humidity remains around 70% all day, every day, which makes it even hotter and usually more unpleasant.  And no, there is no air conditioning.
• Living in summer-like weather during January is just plain weird.
• My host family bought a turkey last week to eat for dinner.  At the time I thought this would be a nice change from the steady diet of chicken.  Little did I know that I would be eating turkey for lunch, dinner, and yes, even breakfast, for the next four days.  There might have been one or two meals that didn’t include turkey during that time, but all I can remember eating is turkey.
• Time for a really random thought:  The printer and copier paper that people use here is not the standard 8.5″ x 11″ size that we use in the U.S.  Their paper is not quite as wide and about an inch longer.  It’s just one of those things that I’ve always found strange and slightly awkward for some reason.
• FYI for those of you who travel outside the country:  It is possible to use Skype to make free telephone calls to toll-free numbers in the U.S.  Oh, the things that you learn while traveling abroad.

Until next time, ciao!