Life on One Foot by Ben Jackson

¨Yo roto mi pie¨, has been a common response that I have had to give many people in Pisco and here in Tacna. As many of you have probably read in the other blog entries, I broke my foot after we had finished our last working day in Pisco. This has disabled me from doing much of the physical labor in Tacna, but has allowed me to get a few experiences that the other guys may not have while on the trip. For instance here in Tacna I was able to shadow my host brother in school for two periods (Math and English). This was pretty cool to see where kids our age are in these two classes. In Math the students were learning about circumference and the different equations of it, but English class was totally different. In English I was used as a subject for questioning by the students, which was really cool and I hope that they learned a lot from me and what I had to share. Many of the kids in this English class were really shy because they had to talk to me (a foreigner) in my language, which from my experience in trying to talk in Spanish to Spanish-speaking people has been a really hard thing to do and I could relate to them in that way and I am extremely grateful for being given that experience. So far I am extremely happy with the things that I have learned in Peru even through the misfortunes and I hope to continue to keep learning as much as I can.