Yarinacocha, September 2015 By: Solfrid and Lewi Agersten

High School

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Where is it….?  OK, so now its back to trying to figure out what I am seeing. Things have changed a lot! So much so that for a moment my bearings got a little shaky. But then I saw the “centrepiece” of Yarina Cocha High School, and I knew exactly where I was! The building that housed the history room, the math room, and the English room. Yes, it is still there! Slightly modified. It now has only two large rooms. And the stairs that went down towards the moto-parking lot / Principal office is removed.  And all the lookers are gone too. While I am mentioning things that are still there….(with no importance what so ever…)  Remarkably to my amazement, the metal pipe that just came out of the ground down by the stairs; It is still there! And it is not even looking rusty!  Wonder what that pipe was for in the fist place!  Who knows! If you know, please E-mail me, because I am very curious! (Just click the little envelope icon at the very top-left corner of the page.) It was completely out of place 30 years ago, and still is completely out of place today.  
The history, math and English rooms.
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Do you remember the tall tree that was standing by the same corner as the metal pipe? The tree that we climbed to putt up the “class sign”? It is still there! There are no signs up there any more. They have of course rotted up a long time ago. Lets just hope nobody was underneath there when they came down. This picture is borrowed from an other web site. (Hope you don’t mind!) It shows the tree with the sign on as it was back then.
So what is not there any more? Basically every other building is not there any more. As we came in from the field by the Auditorium I was expecting to walk in between the science building and the Spanish building. They are no longer there. The school toilets are also gone! It is not that the place is empty. There are now other buildings on the lot. But not exactly replacing the old ones. The new buildings are different size, and arranged differently. That is why I was a little lost at the very beginning while walking in to what used to be the school campus. It looks so different now. Not only are the houses different. But the walkways are different, and thus also some of the trees and bushes. The old mental map of the place just does not fit any more. The administration building / principal office is also gone. The really big mango tree (with the killer be nest on top) is cut down. The large stump is still there. The motorcycle parking lot used to be underneath that tree. Remember how slippery that place became in mango-season? Sliding around on all those fallen mangos as we came to park at school. The private houses between “the track” and school are also history.  In the picture below you see the old building housing the history, math and English room at the centre of the picture. The building to the right is new. This picture is taken with my back to what used to be the track, and looking in the direction of Yarina lake.  
In the picture below you see the old building housing the history, math and English room at the centre of the picture. The building to the right is new. This picture is taken with my back to what used to be the track, and looking in the direction of Yarin 180 degree. Left side is old High School. In the middle is what is left of the track!
Yarinacocha, September 2015            By: Solfrid and Lewi Agersten
OK… So you are looking at my web page using a mobile device?   Well, that is perfectly fine. BUT, my intentions with this web site was to share what I saw through pictures. Click-able pictures and icons that open up large pictures. So with your tiny little thing, you are really not going to see nothing! Sorry! Please fire up your home / office computer, and visit my page again.  It will be very different. Below, as a teaser, I show some of the pictures that you can see in “real size” on the desktop version.  TNX’s
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