Saturday, august 29, 2009:
Woke up to today with a whole lot to do. We finished the shelves for the chicken coop, finished the roof, hung and painted the doors on the coop and run and did a general clean-up.
The 47th Cusco Scouts showed up early today and joined in with the boys. It is quite interesting in that this scout group is all girls just slightly younger than our boys. There was an awful lot of giggling all day long. None of the girls had ever worked on a project like this or knew much about farming, so they matched our boys in that that regard.
Just before noon we finished the chicken coop and everyone went off to get the chickens. Well this was a real hoot. The kids had a hard time catching the chickens in an enclosed room and when Scott managed to catch his chicken it peed all over him. This of course caused a lot of laughing and jokes at his expense.
Lunch was a traditional Peruvian barbeque cooked in a rock pit. We had chicken, potatoes, green beans, yams and other things I can´t name. It was fantastic!
After lunch we had the ceremonies to wrap-up the project. We then proceeded into some ice-breaker games led by the Peruvian Scouts, again with a lot of giggling and a short soccer game.
It was then time to go. As we left on the bus, one of the Venturer´s said "I think that we have really done something good for this community". This was great to hear.
Back in Cusco we enjoyed a night of freedom on the town.
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