Ullaytaytambo, Pisac and back in Cusco

Sorry but there was no internet in Pisac like I thought there might be.
    I will start by continuing with Ullaytaytambo. Michelle and I were the 2 lone adventurers that decided to ditch the van home and stay a night in the quaint little village.  After putting our stuff in the hostel and grabbing a shower we headed out to the town plaza. When we got there(2 minute walk) there was a full on fall down drunk, dance your ass off fiesta going on!!! Turns out that it is the third day of a five day festival celebrating the patron saint of the village, their biggest party of the year!! The only bummer is that we were both beat and we did not feel like a drink at all. We hung out for a couple of hours and watched the band, dancers and drunks but then headed back to the hostel for some much needed rest. We woke to our unplanned alarm clock(bands and dancers that I don't think went to bed) at 7am. There must have been a dozen different musical groups marching around the village at all times. We went to the square and had a great breakfast at Sacred Heart which is a restaurant that gives 100% of it's profits to the Sacred Valley Organizations(mostly related to education).We then looked for the entrance to the free ruins but we were having a hard time locating it. The funny thing is that one of the bands had gone up to them and was positioned in all the windows and doors all the way up on the cliffs!! They hauled everything up(even tubas) and played for about an hour. When we finally found the way up the band had come down and we cruised up. It is beautiful but has different stonework than Machu Pichu, not even close to the precise rock shaping as M.P. had. We tooled around until our camera batteries died(this turned out to be a big mistake) then headed down to join in on the festivities in the plaza. There was so many amazing different dance  groups and all were traditionally dressed to the nines. Now I would love to show you pictures but first of all Inti Raymi is going on here and I am not going anywhere near the Plaza with my laptop where the wi-fi is, so unless I can get internet in my hotel in Lima pictures are done until I get to the states(sorry). Also My batteries had died non the cliffs with the ruins so I didn't get any pictures of the dancing. :-(  After we got our cultural fill we had lunch at Sacred Heart and grabbed a super cheap ride home, but not before meeting a couple of great locals(Roberto and Aliz). The following week with the kids was great. I figured out that since I suck with the language I am of the most help with math, which is a common hated course amongst the children. I ahve also been playing a game or two of chess a day with a few of the older boys. Now everything isn't always fun and games. One of the older boys came in one morning and just started to cry, I couldn't figure out what was wrong so Marta took to him. Turns out that his drunk angry father took to beating his mother in front of him. His mother then, in self defense, picked up a knife and stabbed the father in the neck. This all took place with the 13 year old boy watching. There are terrible things happening all over the world every day and it is sad that such a preventable situation(self control) has to happen. here in Peru physical and sexual abuse is very common and rarely does the violator ever get punished. We also a couple of new young teen girls in the program that can not go home and be alone with there father because of the terrible things that he does to them(they were to embarrassed to go into details). I would like to think that disgraceful acts like this only happen in far away lands but that is not the case and I hope we all do our part to help( I know I can do more).
   Sorry to write such downer stuff but that is part of working with kids here and that is what I am doing this and the blog for. On a brighter note the day the boy came in crying I happened to bring in my laptop to show the kids some slideshows I had put together of all of them. We started playing music and in no time he was up with sunglasses and singing up a storm. He sang and danced for about 40 minutes while I filmed some and he entertained the tiny room. I am going to post this so I don't lose it with these stupid computers. I will write another directly after I post this.