Plans for 2020

MANY DREAMS FOR 2020
We left Colorado for Peru on January 9 and will return in early April. I made a list of our hopes:

Here are our expectations of projects to do for 2020:

*Finance Ivan’s second year of college.

*Help out with school supplies for about a dozen children at approximately $35 each.

*Install and trade a solar electric system to a poor family.

*Trade efficient 12v electronics such as LED lights, USB ports and inverters.*

*Give technical advice and help with solar problems.

*Bring young people on educational outings, such as to archeological ruins.

*Buy all the groceries for the family while we are there. Our presence brings the family together, with cousins and uncles often spending time and eating at the house where we stay.  

*Be available for medical emergencies, such as broken arms.

*Possibly bring Noemi and her children from Lima to Taquile during summer vacation. They had a healthy and learning summer last year, playing outside safely and freely, and Noemi helped her mother with the agriculture.**

*Dance in Carnival.

*Participate in community projects such as dock building or path improvements and community litter cleanup. 

*Work in the fields with the family.*** 

*Help host guests staying at our family’s homestay hospedaje.

*Give attention, play ball and just plain have fun while mentoring at least a dozen young children.

I post this after being in Peru for  less than two weeks, and already much has happened:

 

*We've traded or sold nearly all our electronics and are in process of atempting to order more life-saving flashlights sent directly from Amazon. They are currently in the customs offices in Lima, so still waiting to see. The trails are rocky, and a decent RECHARGEABLE flashlight is essential for night walking safety.

**Noemi and Alejandro have duties in Lima this summr, so unless Grandpa Felipe can bring one or two of them as he travels now and then to Lima, this repeat adventure will have to wait for next year.

***We already put in a hard day's work planting potatoes. More to come, for sure!

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Just to brighten this post, this was the Christmas display at the Lima Airport: