Last week all the Peru 20 Environmental volunteers traveled to the department of Junin for in-service training. Highlights included stopping off at the world's highest railroad which reaches 4,830 m (15,850 ft... It was VERY cold), helping Shannon fix up an endangered frog specie's enclosure, seeing flamingos at 13,500 ft!, learning about Environmental psychology from Alane, installing a biodigester, learning about school gardens, doing some light hiking, and I got to teach the other volunteers about my plastic bag project. (For those of you who don't know, I am re-utilizing plastic bags in my site to create Plana (plastic yarn) and crocheting/knitting with the Plana. I hope to sell these items and reduce the amount of plastic bags going to the dump in my site.) All in all, it was a super busy week but really fun! Sorry for the abundance of photos again. Please note I'm wearing 3-4 layers (top and bottom) in most of these photos.
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| 4800m! SUPER cold and wearing lots of layers! |
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| Fixing the net for the enclosure |
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| Mike clearing out the reeds in the enclosure |
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| Placing the net over the enclosure |
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| Planking with Brian at the Lake |
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| The beautiful Lake Junin |
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| Flamingos! |
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| Mike and the scarf I crocheted him |
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| Brian scaling the wall.. |
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| Watching the sunset over the Lake |
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| Stasia's super well behaved kids and their awesome plants |
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| The final product hung |
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| Poking holes to hang the bottles |
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| Teaching the volunteers about my project |
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| I taught the volunteers how to make Beta fish keychains out of plastic bags and this was Ingrid's beautiful fish! |
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| The adorable campo kids |
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| They could not have been cuter watching us install the biodigester |
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| The kids and their dad |
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| The wall we built to prevent cows from falling in the biodigester |
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| This kid kept eating the styrofoam |
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| Filling the biodigester stomach |
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| Literally everyone worked together on this |
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| Mike piling rocks for the wall |
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| Placing the biodigester in the hole |
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| This guy's site was seriously beautiful |
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| Our boss says that kids are our soldiers and that we should make them do all our work. I take this to heart |
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| We hiked into a small cave |
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| My new favorite animal is the vicuña |
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