Well, I guess it's time to get back to the blog, even though I've never been real good at keeping it updated. Anyway, the last entry that I wrote about was back in 2011 just after I got back to Peru after visiting my family.
As you can read in the last entry, we had quite an "adventure" with Edgar's visa. If you can believe it or not, it took almost 10 months to finally get his visa back. It finally arrived in September of 2011. So, Edgar finally got to travel to the States with me in December of 2011. Edgar got to meet my whole family, including brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews. He also got to meet some of the extended family, altough it's now becoming impossible to get the whole extended family together. We were also able to visit the Grand Canyon and go snowboarding. I taught Edgar how to snowboard, which was a bit of an adventure. I would say he spent more time on his butt than upright, but that's not so unusual for someone's first time snowboarding. And he said that he really liked it and would like to go again. So, I guess the butt time wasn't too bad for him.
Early this year, March 28th to be exact, we also welcomed a new edition into the family. We now have a little girl named Adara Alicia Quispe Love. She's brought a lot of joys and smiles to the family. Edgar's family especially loves her because she's the first grandchild/niece for all of them. So, she's a little spoiled. I can already tell that she's strong-willed and will probably be an adventure raising her. But I guess that all comes with the package.
I'm still working at the Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano teaching English. I've now taught just about every level there is, including the Fundamental levels. However, the very first level I haven't taught. Although, I'm more confident now that I could teach that level. It would just be a little more work because you have to prepare a little bit more material for them.
Edgar now has a job teaching at a technical institute here in Puno. He followed a program to receive a degree in Administration through a university called the Universidad Hispana de Utah. When he took the degree into the institute, they saw it was from the United States and immediately gave him the job. It's been a lot of work for him because the work he did for the university was not real advanced. So, now he's doing a lot of research to be able to have the information to teach. But I think things are going well for him and he's enjoying his time there. Oh, and they gave him an English class to teach. I think since his degree came from a university in the States, they assume he can speak English. They don't realize that he completed all his coursework here in Peru in Spanish. Luckily, the class is a beginning class and it's a good way for him to practice his English.
Anyway, at then end of this month, we're on our way to Lima again. We have to get Adara registered as an American citizen and get her passport. We're also going to start the process for Edgar's immigrant visa. Hopefully, things will go a lot smoother than any of our other experiences working with bureaucracy, Peruvian and American. But I'm not holding my breath.
