Elise, a Dutch imported Londoner from 2000 to 2006, escaped the tubestrikes, bad weather and cultural diversity of the city to start again from scratch with her new mountain man in mystical Peru.
In 2008 she started a place called "El Arte Sano" (Spanish for "healthy art") in Urubamba, a small town not far from Cusco, in a beautiful valley running through the Andes mountains. It's a small centre that offers English courses focused on tourism for locals to improve their jo prospects in the tourism industry, and also seeks to organise cultural workshops and events, since this small town doesn't offer much of that! (This is the blog for the centre, currently only in Spanish: http://elartesano-urubamba.blogspot.com/ )
Although the centre is doing well, virtually no money can be saved each month to do the following important things: Buy better teaching materials, renovate some parts of the rooms, and spend more time organising cultural events.
Soooo... this is why Elise is now in Europe, to raise funds and continue improving the centre. She has a real passion for the Peruvian culture and one of the thigns she is most impressed with is the skill and vast tradition of handicrafts in Peru, done using techniques that often date back hundreds of years.
She has been exploring some of these techniques herself and has decided to share these with you to offer some truly unique handmade gifs for you or a loved one.
In 2008 she started a place called "El Arte Sano" (Spanish for "healthy art") in Urubamba, a small town not far from Cusco, in a beautiful valley running through the Andes mountains. It's a small centre that offers English courses focused on tourism for locals to improve their jo prospects in the tourism industry, and also seeks to organise cultural workshops and events, since this small town doesn't offer much of that! (This is the blog for the centre, currently only in Spanish: http://elartesano-urubamba.blogspot.com/ )
Although the centre is doing well, virtually no money can be saved each month to do the following important things: Buy better teaching materials, renovate some parts of the rooms, and spend more time organising cultural events.
Soooo... this is why Elise is now in Europe, to raise funds and continue improving the centre. She has a real passion for the Peruvian culture and one of the thigns she is most impressed with is the skill and vast tradition of handicrafts in Peru, done using techniques that often date back hundreds of years.
She has been exploring some of these techniques herself and has decided to share these with you to offer some truly unique handmade gifs for you or a loved one.
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