Managed to get the local bus into Trujillo yesterday. It is supposed to be a really dangerous town but it seemed OK. The local men were a bit of a nusiance but nothing really bad. Everything is really cheap here, we somehow tracked down a vegetarian restaurant and for a meal and a drink it was £2.50. If we had have gone for the fixed price menu we would have got 3 courses and a drink for £1.25. At the moment we are sticking to bottled drinks and not eating salad.

I don't seem to be picking up any Spanish at all, not quite sure what I will do once the girls go back, I suppose I will just smile and point!

The sun did shine today which was a relief, although still not hot. Forecast bad for the next week.

Biggest drama of the day was that I had hand washed all my underwear and put it out to dry and when we got back everthing was gone... still trying to identify which kids may be running round with my pants on their head!

The children live in 4 seperate houses and have a house mother that lives with them, they also have a full time social worker on site. At the weekends the volunteers all seem to do their own thing. During the week the majority of kids go to school off of the site, whilst those with special needs and the very little ones are taught here. They do seem to have a lot of support. Most of the children have been removed from abusive families. The security is vey high, with guards on duty and it is in the middle of nowhere with high walls around the outside and barbed wire. Not the most friendly looking place but due to the amount of poverty and crime around it has to be like this.

I will try and upload a picture of the playground that we are going to start repainting next week.