Night on a floating island in a straw hut!

So once again I have been a bit lazy on the old blogs and I have so much to write!!

After leaving the orphanage Ceri (another volunteer) and I headed south to Puno. We arrived at 5 in the morning and went straight to the hostal to get a few hours kip. We woke up bright and early and after grabing some food went down to the port of Lake Titicaca (Peru side) to sort out going to las islas flotantes - the floating islands. We had originally wanted to stay on the island of Taquille but we were told that this wouldn´t be possible so would have to stay on Uros. I have to say I didn´t really know what to expect and when we got to Uros and I saw all these straw huts I was thinking what have I let myself in for. Hahaha. We stopped there for a bit and we were told all about the islanders and how they have no help from the government. They live through tourism and are pretty cut off from the outside world apart from the tourists and the odd trip to the main island for certain foods.
After the talk we were then sung to which was very weird. I didn´t like this as it was clearly for the tourists and also...they were terrible at singing! They did a song in quechua, then a song in English which just so happened to be Row row row your boat. It was so funny. Me and Ceri were trying not to laugh but it was so hard not to.
We then took our straw mercedes benz over to the other part of Uros which would be our home for the night. Here there was a restaurant, a bar and our "hotel". I´d just like to point out that this was all made of straw on an island that´s only 11 metres deep. We were shown our accomodation which was a hut with two mattreses inside. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon just chatting and relaxing and watching the sun set over Puno in the distance. We asked if it was ok to go for a walk and the girl looked a bit puzzled but said yes. We started walking and soon realised that the island we were on was literally a few metres long! There was nowhere to walk to!
We had a lovely dinner but I was a bit dissapointed that it wasn´t with the family. After sunset it was a case of using the torch to get around as there was no light which was funny when trying to go to the outside, and very basic toilet! It was still quite early but we were shattered from all the travelling so did a bit of reading by candlelight from under the several blankets as it was so cold, and then bed.