In the desert but so cold!!

Have arrived in Trujillo at the orphanage. The bus journey was good, no hold ups, no muggings and a great service.. really comfy seats which fully reclined, a bus hostess who brought round drinks and snacks and then reclined you and tucked you in with a big blanket... it was great! Obviously we went for the more expensive bus service but it was still only about £15 each to travel for 10 hours. The whole of the coast is just desert and then the occasional really poor shanty town.

We got a taxi to the orphanage which is further out into the desert in the middle of no where. There are about 45 children here ranging from 2 to 17, they are like any other kids, noisy, playful but just want more cuddles. They don't speak English which is more of a problem for me than the girls. As always coming into a new situation feels a little awquard and we were very tired yesterday, the girls were expecting babies to cuddle so were a bit disappointed but it will be fine. There are 6 long term volunteers here, all young American kids and they are nice. We have the weekend off and on Monday we are starting a project of re painting the playground, I think it will be good to have a focus. Today we are going to go and have a look around Trujillo and try and get some more layers of clothes. I'm beginning to think bad weather just haunts me, I go to America and it is the worst weather for 30 years and apparently here it is 10 degrees colder than normal for this time of year! I suppose in reality it is climate change and I won't get too paranoid.

I recognise the feelings that I had when I was away last time of extremes of mood. At one point thinking 'why am I doing this' to the next of feeling really good.

Having problems up loading pics on here, just managed to put on the first picture of us leaving home and now it seems to have frozen, may just have to leave it like that for now and keep trying!