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Rosemary Gorman Morley, Language and Intercultural Trainer and Director of the Language of Service, provides great ideas on how your school can host events that are fun, educational, and encourage an appreciation of diverse cultures.
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Anna Davis travels back to Tierra Prometida in Ica Peru to document the progress on the community kitchen.
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Anna gives her first impressions of Peru and travels to the village where we are funding the materials for a community kitchen and day care.
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We walk.
After an hour we start passing tourists on the same route as us, desperate to get back to Cusco this evening.
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We walk for three hours to Aguas Calients. The streets are empty…not filled with the usual load of tourists to see Machu Picchu daily. Jose discovers Cusco is on strike. No cars, buses or trains are running out of the city to neighboring areas. The only way in and out of Aguas Calientes is by foot from Santa Teresa (the way we arrived) or by train.
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I wake with knees swollen to the size of melons, it hurts to squat. I praise my feet in a cold river wash, loving between toes and around ankles. Bug bites swell as if bruised but warm coca tea, socks and my friendly alpaca blanket are comforts in the morning.
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I wear my blanket to breakfasts, lunches and dinner. The silent earth reminds me of what we are all made of. I wish a pilgrimage of this sort to be experienced by every woman, to touch the strong ground and become closer to the sky. I feel motherly. I am trying to be aware of the people and animals here in the present as relationships from past lives.
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Almost too excited to sleep. I am up, packed and breakfasting by 6 a.m. waiting to be picked for the start of our Trek. My guide Jose arrives, our cook Amancio and we pile all our gear and supplies into a white Toyota. I am not looking forward to the 7 hour drive, but it turns out to be a wondrous journey up mountain passes and through cloud forests.
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