Day 1 in Peru

Photo: The lonley Lima airport at 2 a.m.

Photo: Bleary eyed, but ready to go. My first meeting is in just a couple of hours.

It doesn't matter how many times I make this trip - sitting in the Lima airport for 5-hours from 1 a.m. until 6 a.m. is dreadful!

Day one and we will be gathering all of our materials together to get ready for the trip to the Colca. We start data collection in the afternoon on Thursday and then begin a full fledged data grab on Friday.

Father Alex and I will be meeting with the Bishop of Arequipa in just a few hours to discuss partnering our resources on the development of a drop-in center for abandon youth in downtown Arequipa. This is a dream for HBI and a project we have loosely been working on for a number of years. Keep your fingers crossed that the meeting goes well.

I am excited for this week and our research project - as we have a great team of volunteers and should be able to get really robust data sets together.

Check out the Blog throughout the next week for frequent updates. Thanks!