Estoy aqui!

After a long night of traveling, I arrived in Cusco at 8:30 this morning. After a short tour of the volunteer organization's office, I was taken to my housing and immediately fell asleep for 4 hours. I am staying in a family house called San Pedro. There are 12 volunteers living here. I am rooming with a girl named Alejandra - she is very nice and speaks fluent Spanish so that's a plus! We have a house manager and cook who makes us all our meals. They are both very nice and speak pretty good English as well.

After my nap, I walked about 20 minutes to the volunteer office for my orientation. I also took a Spanish test to see what level lessons I should take while I'm here. Good news - I'm not super basic! I'm actually pre-intermediate - I guess all my practicing by myself in my room paid off.

Tomorrow I have my first Spanish class from 10-12, then visit the site of my volunteer project at 2:30. I'm really enjoying myself so far and am very impressed with how organized the whole process has been.

The food so far has been very good. Berto- you were right about the potatoes. Peru has 3000+ varieties of potatoes and we are told to expect them in every meal.

View from my bedroom window

My room

Another of the view from my bedroom

My volunteer house - my room is the 2nd floor, 2nd from the left