Photos, Life

I've finally gotten to post some pictures! They aren't yet captioned very well and there are more I'm hoping to put up soon, but decent internet is hard to find. Also, I'm going to try and put them somewhere different so people don't have to have an account to see them. For now, they are at laurainsouthamerica.snapfish.com/snapfish

As for what I'm up to here, I've started doing volunteer work with a couple architects in Cusco. They are both professors at the university here and are working on various projects around the city. It's interesting to go with them to their classes and see how architecture school is here. The classrooms are really crowded and the students have far fewer resources and materials than I'm used to seeing available at a major university. At Berkeley, we all had our own desks, there were computers, printers, tons of books, all kinds of different materials for building models, etc. Here, they work at their houses, without computers usually, and with really limited materials. It's fun to talk to them though. About the differences and similarities in our education, the architects we like and dislike, about Cusco, etc.

So far, with the architects, I've been working mainly on redesigning a little chapel in the town of Andahuaylillas. My chapel isn't on the website, but the big church that is being restored is...andahuaylillas.com. Haven't done much work on my design yet, but I have to show some preliminary sketches to the Priest sometime soon, so I guess in the next few days I'll be working a lot. And then I'll have more to say about what I'm doing. For now, that's more or less it.