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A special Friday

Posted on by Sandy

Friday May 25th was the happy kindergarteners ‘day. Being the teacher of four classes of kindergarteners I participated with my students at this day. The day began with outside games of each class (2, 3, 4 and 5 years old). Bags races, musical chairs......

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24 hours of volunteering !

Posted on by Sandy

Here, the time seems to fly. The weeks are going by incredibly fast ! To have a better idea of our life and our work here, this is an example with my day of yesterday ! 6.30 am: waking up 6.30 until 7.10 am: preparation ( shower, breakfast...) 7.10 -...

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The famous lines of Nasca !

Posted on by Sandy

As everyone know, Nasca is known and visited principally because of those weird lines that ancient Nascas have drawn on the desert. Most of those lines are in forms of animals but some of them represent geometrical figures. So far, the explanations of...

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Happy Mother Day

Posted on by Cecile

Time flies away very quickly here. It is good because we are never bored, there is always much to do but it also means iot is harder to write an article in time! Yes, I want to talk about the mother day in Peru, El dia de la madre. I still have difficulties...

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House building in Peru

Posted on by Anna

There is a big, strange and spontaneous phenomenon here in our “asentamiento humano” de Nueva Villa, and generally in Peru about the houses building. If you want to build a house alone in the neighborhood it is allowed. So you can see people building...

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Yacu Raymi

Posted on by Simona

Here in Nazca, from the 3 untill the 15 of May, there is an important event: the “semana turistica de Nazca” (that is, the “touristic week of Nazca”). We've been lucky, because we've had the opportunity to participate in it. In particular, one of the...

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An incredible human adventure

Posted on by Simona

It's beautiful to see how and how much people open themselves to you, when they feel just that you're there and that you deserve their trust. For example, when I'm walking in the streets of Nazca, and someone asks me how long I'm going to stay here, as...

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El Cerro Blanco, the highest dune of the world!

Posted on by Cecile

Last week end, we found a new way to enjoy our free day : walking in the mountains and doing sandboard from early in the morning to early afternoon. Simona, Benoit (other volunteer), and friend of his (Amandine) and I climbed el Cerro Blanco that is close...

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Cooking internship

Posted on by Anna

I love Peruvian cooking. It’s a mix of all seven cultures of this country (Creoles, Chinese,..). It’s like poetry! On Saturdays before lunch I go to see Rosa, our great cooker to learn some new recipes. She is nice and she cooks very well and for me who...

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The inestimable value of water.

Posted on by Sandy

Volunteer’s life is full of surprise. Here, for example, we need to be very careful with the water. Indeed, Nasca is situated in the aridest part of Peru. Each house has a water tank in her roof. Our has a countenance of 1100 liters of water and need...

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