Cooking chilli con carni and pancakes today as part of the workshops that we have four nights a week, we had a brainstorm over what would most effectively represent the cusine of Britain and opted for a Mexican dish and pancakes - go figure. Shepherds pie would probably have been a lot better but we don't have an oven and most popular British dishes require an oven and two hours cooking. We could always use the classic phrase 'here's one I made earlier' and whip a full roast out in front of an amazed and no doubt impressed group of Peruvian women.

On Saturday we are going camping and have a 5 mile trek up in to the mountains and, according to the itinery, we will share 'mysterious and enigmatic stories' which in other words means ghost stories. Then on Sunday back to Las Flores, just in time for some more fried egg and rice. Um um Yum.

They eat a load of rice and potato so we will probably be having birthday cake and chips on Friday...

They are also dogs EVERYWHERE and dogs being dogs they are invariably always hungry and it is really funny to see a dog chase stones that you throw because they think that is food. In Britain there would probs be outrage at the way they treat thir animals, but here it is just normal to kick them.

About two minutes away from where I am working there is a circus tent. I asked our supervisor if they had animals, he said no but sometimes other circuses have animals and they feed their animals stray dogs - sounds a little bit like something Borat would say but it is actually true!

We are slowly but surely making a new bedroom and a bathroom for a family who have five kids and one kitchen and bedroom to share between them all. It is shocking to think that people live like this considering what we have back home.

I feel that I am doing something good here being here and it gives me a warm feeling inside just thinking about it- Emma xx