Huanchaco

Now I have been in Huanchaco for a few days and have already met up with Juany and Peter the two coordinators of `Otra Cosa´. I have found it to be more than a reasonable enough place to rest my bones for a month. What they are doing in the town is quite impressive, changing it from a poor sailor port where street kids run around and hackle throughout the town trying to survive on wits proven to be more advanced than any 8 year old should have. They have created a house for some of these kids that have nothing left in their lives. They also had created Huanchaco´s very first Library with three sections dividing a cermional room, a children´s room and the adults´. I have already met some artisans along the beach and started to learn the basic slang of the town. One was named Kadé who showed me a gleaming white and maroon cathedral that was set on the very top of the hill. I learned some history of the town and some of the struggles they had clearly faced. He gave me a necklace piece threaded with thick strings of asorted colors, snake skin, shells and a blue feather dangling at the end. I gave him $16 for it and realized it later that the time and the precision involved was way more than I had imagined or paid for. I have been staying at a place called ¨My friend¨which is full of surfers, brits and belgiums along with the local peruvians. The rooms are not the cleanest but they appear to be the safest. I have already lined up an apartment with a couple of the other volunteers, a big brute of a german and a 5 foot stocky young freckled lad from Portugal. It costs about 300 soles a month about which turns out to be around $100. Not terrible but not what I expected either. Juany is going on a ¨group outing¨to some wine vineyards so we´ll shake hands on it monday. I decided to stay in Huanchaco to conserve money and to better aquaint myself with the town. So Im off to visit some markets.. see what they behold.