And then I moved back home...

no, no, no, not to Europe, I only digitally moved back to this blog!
After a long time idle at www.elisemundo.co.nr , this year is a year of facing truths for me, and this is the simplest of all of them: I'm not in the right place to design a new page each time I want to write something. And I want to share more often than 3 times a year, so here I am, back at my original address.

Seriously though, this year seems to be about recognising the strength of everything, from my own strength to the strength of Mother Earth, who has been shaking up our area of the world quite a bit, floods in Cusco and the Sacred Valley, also Urubamba where I live, and the big earthquake in Chile. How did we humans ever get so arrogant, lose touch so much with the earth, to get angry when our tiny building fall over when she sneezes...

On a more personal level, which is what I can more readily have an affect on... I visited my family and friends in Europe last year for 3 months, after having been in Peru for 3 years straight, and I can still feel the difference that visit has had on my life. Being there, was tough, because I didn't quite feel I was fitting in (apart from in my capoeira group in London, that was home), but I also wasn't a stranger to it. For the most part I felt like I was looking at everything from above and laughing at the differences with my current life in Peru.
But the lasting effects were a massive boost to my confidence, and it was like I was given a pair of glasses that made everything clear: I am so lucky to live where I live, love what I do, and (as a preparation for this year) I slowly started to realise "everything is possible". Seeing possibilities rather than difficulties.

So, coming back with that energy in August 2009, the English language and cultural centre (El Arte Sano http://www.languagecultureperu.com) has been doing excellent, great team of teachers and we actually got round to doing some more cultural activities, mostly in December last year.

This sums up the update from the last blog entry till now, next time I'll dish you up some more detailed and interesting ruminations about what goes on in my mind living in between these beautiful and wondrous mountains!