I'm back from Peru. It was an incredibly amazing experience. I made so many new friends, and my life was changed in so many ways.
The biggest thing I learned while we were there was that love has no language barrier. I was barely able to communicate with most of the ladies from the church we worked with, and most of the kids from the villages, but I could see the love in their eyes.
I also learned that we place way too much value on material possessions. The people of Pucallpa are incredibly poor by the world's standards, but they are so richly blessed with faith, family, and love. They lack nothing, and aren't unhappy with what they have. We always want more, and they are always giving.
Now I'm headed up north until the middle of August. It's an incredibly quick turnaround to go from Peru to camp, and at some point everything will probably overwhelm me. I'm so sad to be gone from Peru, but that is currently being overshadowed by the happiness of going to camp. I'm sure that the end of this summer will be harder than most.
If you want to write to me while I'm at camp, here's the address.
I love getting letters :)
Alyssa Hobson
c/o Hiawatha Youth Camp
Piatt Lake
Eckerman, MI 49728
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Bienvenidos back in la United States!
That was a horribly mutilated mix of Spanish, Latin and English. I don't think I'd make it in a foreign country. I can, however, swear in 4 different languages. English, French, Polish and Natchez (of all things). But I don't. ;)
*gasp/sputter/grin* I just realized something really funny.
Haha, it was a very interesting language mix.
What country speaks Natchez?
And what did you just realize?
Not a country, a tribe. As in, Natchez Indians. As in, Itchakomi, Jubal's wife.
Er, well, it has to do with Louis L'amour. See in "Jubal Sackett" there's a Natchez princess and she insults some guy by looking daggers at him and saying "kitch." The Natchez word for *cough*dung*cough*. And then, in one of the later books in the Sackett series (I think it was in "Sackett" or "The Daybreakers") one of the bad guys was named Kitch. I don't know if L'amour did it on purpose, but when I left that comment, something clicked and I put it together.
interesting...
I know...I'm just full of all sorts of odd information.
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