Every now and then I will hear a song that I know in Padre Cocha, for example Gangnam Style. Last week I heard a song that I knew for sure! But it was in spanish and it took me a while to figure out from where I knew it. It turned out to be Elvis - Hound dog, just in spanish, which I found to be pretty funny. We don't have a tv or a stereo in our house, but we really don't need it. Usually every family will turn up the volume as loud as possible to show off. This means that there is always plenty of music to listen to at once and sometimes movies in spanish.
Sometime when it rains, it just goes nuts! But we like it. It is around 35 celsius/95 fahrenheit every day. The rain cools us down and makes the air colder which is great. Saturday Sofia and I went for a walk. We passed the last house and followed a path into the wild. It was beautiful. It was green everywhere we looked and it was quiet. After a long walk we reached a fence and on the other side of the fence we could see a house far away and two bulls running around playing. I couldn't believe there was actually people living there, in the middle of nowhere! We found a pineapple growing on a plant, which didn´t even reach above my knees. Both of us thought they would grow on trees, but no :)
We talked about living in Padre Cocha and I think an interesting point was that, since we don't have internet, we've stopped worrying about what everyone else is doing and started to just think about what we are doing and what we want to do. No facebook statutes to read, no news and so on - only this once a week.
I started reading a book last week - On the road by Jack Kerouac. It is a great book and great to read when you travel. It is about a guy's adventures while traveling and hitchhiking across USA. I got it from my aunt just before I left Denmark. It makes me miss being in USA, but then I begin to miss Denmark - home, even more. It is nice though, I love to go to my room 30-60 minutes before lights go out and just read.
My day usually looks like this: I wake up at 6:00-6:30, make a hot cup of tea and write in my travel journal. If I have time, I will start reading my book. Then I cook breakfast, oatmeal or eggs. Work is from 8:30-16:00 and after work I spend most evenings talking in the hammock with the other volunteers or the family we live with. The past few days, Joscha and I have been drinking coffee, eating cookies, playing cards and talking for hours. This makes me feel at home :)
The people here are great and also very interesting. Many believe that the pink dolphins from the amazon river will turn into men at night. It is always handsome and charming men who will try to seduce the women in town. Sometimes if a woman is pregnant and they don't know why - the dolphins can get the blame. Irene believes that she once met one of these men.
Humberto also told us about how many people (including himself) believe that owls can reveal if someone is pregnant. He says it is not unusual if a family has daughters, that they will get an owl. If the owl sings all of the afternoon, it means that someone in the house is pregnant. This way, the daughters can't hide it from their parents.
Even though it is great when I finally go to town and have the time to make updates, check emails and etc. I really enjoy my time here and find it very relaxing to be away from computers and so on.
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