Wow. I didn't think the pain and soreness from all the digging we did today would really hit me in just one place!
Alright, so, this morning we all got up nice 'n early... My room (Reed, Lewis and I) got up first at 7 (via my watch alarm), and then realized that was unnecessary to make it for 8 o'clock breakfast, so we went back to bed. Sleep is key.
Breakfast was really good, actually... well, not "actually", as in I'm surprised that Peruvians have decent food (all the food we've had so far has actually been really really good), but I expected a sort of light, small, easy breakfast, and we got FED. Plenty of eggs, a plate of really nice bread/bun/pastry-type-things at each table, various cereals, fruit, everything. It was an excellent start to the day... and by lunch, I'm pretty sure everyone was wishing they'd taken advantage of all the food.
You see, today we started the construction at the orphanage/camp! Yay! It's pretty much the hardest physical labour I for one have ever been required to do. (Well, actually, digging up a couple trees from the front garden a couple weeks ago was just as bad, but that job was tiny compared to what we're doing here.) We were divided up into teams and assigned different tasks (LL, Colleen, Nicole and Lewis were assigned to move dirt and build a ramp into the GIANT trench that will be the foundation of a wall; Graham, Mitchell and Kayla were assigned to dig aforementioned trench) and I got the incredibly lucky job of being among the Amazing Hole-Diggers. Missy, Reed, Walker and I got the job - nay, the priviledge! - of digging a really big toilet. An enormous hole for the latrine: a couple feet by a couple feet square at the top, and 2 meters down. So, basically, all of spent the day digging. It's tough work, and we will all be incredibly sore and blistered tomorrow.
We ate our other two meals at churches (both were incredible), and then split up again to go to different cell groups of the Larco church. I was paired with Emily and Cheryl, an intern who translated english to spanish for the first time ever (and did a rather good job, too). It was really, really cool to see how the Peruvians do a bible-study-type-thing. Lots of prayer, lots of sharing (probably because we were there), and a little less focus on heavy, in-depth ripping into Scripture (though that was still present). it was a bit slower, because of the translation, but that was alright. Emily, Cheryl and i gave brief testimonies, and Emily got to sing for them, and they shared some about themselves as well. It was my first real connection with the nationals down here (other than playing with the kids, which is quite different), and it really emphasized for me the similarities between us. Christians are Christians everywhere, no matter what language they speak.
So, to finish off, it was a full day, a tough day, but a good day. We'll all be sleeping reeeeally well tonight.

Adios from Peru!
-Jon