Centro Aeronautico Peru

While we were in Lima Coco and I went to have dinner with his family in this place. The Centro Aeronautico Peru is a club exclusive to members of the Air Force and their families. It´s been around since roughly the 1940´s, perhaps longer, husband´s not too sure. They used to use it quite frequently for many Air Force events like ceremonies, weddings, and other social gatherings. Now it serves primarily as a restaraunt. I love the old feel of the place, so of course I took pictures for you.

I wish that these walls could talk to me and tell me all the old stories and adventures of Peruvian pilots. But I didn´t hear any voices coming from the walls, although that´s probably a good thing.

Mi Universo Infantil and ICPNA

So as I may have mentioned I  have two new jobs here in Iquitos. After a year of teaching lots and lots of private classes, Im happy to report that I will soon be working as an official employee that recieves a real paycheck at two different educational settings. One I am currently working at is an English institute called ICPNA or, Instituto Cultural Peruano NorteAmericano. They pride themselves on teaching English from a NorthAmerican prespective and facilitating a cultural exchange in the classroom between Peru and North America. I am currently teaching at the Basic level and I totally love it so far. Below is a picture from when I trained at ICPNA headquarters with other perspective teachers while I was in Lima.

My other job will be teaching English to Preschool and Kindregarten students at a private preschool called Mi Universo Infantil. My friend invited me to teach there and the preschool is currently recruiting students for the school year which starts in March. In order to increase enrollment we had a publicity event last weekend where prospective students and families were invited to check out the facility. So I brought along my camera so you could see first hand what my preschool looks like.

As part of the event we had a Karate demonstration and a puppet show. Heres a little from the kids karate class demo.

And now on to images from the puppet show.

It was a great chance to meet everybody and I am really looking forward to working with the students and teachers from Mi Universo Infantil.

Barranco Re-visited

I´m pretty sure you have all seen pictures of Barranco on this blog. But just in case you´ve forgotten about it, I thought we would revisit this old artsy district of Lima one more time. Coco´s grandmother has a house in this district and I stayed there with her before I came to visit California for Christmas. I loved strolling this area in the afternoon and taking in all the sights, sounds, and smells of it. On our return from California Coco and I spent some time walking through Barranco and one day we took Kiara for a stroll through the area. Kiara is Coco´s dog that lives with his grandma, we couldn´t bring her to Iquitos. But here´s some moments from that day.

The main plaza area is beautiful and and right now the summer flowers are blooming in bright colors.

Just a few steps away from the main plaza is the beautiful coastline with great views.

It´s a great place to catch a sunset, like this one that we were lucky enough to see.

The area has an old and artistic style to all of its details.

The walls are all cracked and peeling everywhere you look. And the walls seem to naturally tell the story of time.

Some of the houses in Barranco look older and less maintained, but they all boast their own unique style.

Barranco is by far one of my favorite neighborhoods and when ever I say that we are in Lima, you can bet that we are probably strolling through it on our visit.