Bianca, my next door neighbor

Allow me to introduce you all to Bianca, my new next door neighbor. She's this cute little 6 year old cochina that runs around without shoes, her hair is never brushed and she cusses a lot. She's kind of my new favorite person in the whole world.

 

Bianca's a special girl to me because I already have so many funny stories about her. When I went to visit my site, she was with me basically the whole time - not an exaggeration. She'd see me leave my house and tell her mom, "CIAO MOMMA! VOY CON GIA!" Her mom responded, "Donde?!" (Where?) Bianca, "No se! CIAO!!" ("I don't know, bye!")

The first night I slept with the window open. The first morning, Bianca had climbed through my window, which isn't exactly low in height. She was watching me sleep I guess then when I woke up and she didn't expect it, I scared her by making eye contact and she fell abruptly right into my bed from outside. You for sure need to have monkey genes to have climbed to get into my window. It was a "good morning, Peru" kind of moment, ha!

She also was curious of what was inside this sack on the side of the road and happened to lift it over head and it was just this sack of dust that fell all over her. My little cochina.

She was there when the health post was presenting me with my office and scrubs. Me, the doctor, the two nurses, the technician, and Bianca. LOVE IT!

Oh and this is her before she fell out of the tree a whopping 10 feet. She literally just said, "Ouch!", got back up and tried to climb it again.

Bianca is always running around the community and everyone says she has no boss. She's VERY independent. She never wants to be home for a reason though. Her parents don't exactly give her the most attention and they yell and scream at her a lot. I feel deeply sad that this is happening in Bianca's life. I hope to become her friend and an example for her. She is extremely smart and strong. I know she'll be a huge part of my Peace Corps experience. I want to give her something back as well. I was talking to my mom the other night and she said, "You're giving people dreams." Hopefully I can teach Bianca to dream. I'm officially making that a Peace Corps goal for myself!