After the seeds had eventually been sown and began to grow we turned our attention to the formation of the company and the purchasing of the water system. The natural choice was to register our company in Cajamarca. Roger and I sat down together one night to decide upon a name. I suggested we use the name ´Barton´ (the name of the village where my parents live in England) and Roger suggested we use the name Caxamarca. So we simply decided upon the grand sounding name of Barton Caxamarca Corporation (or BarcaCorp for short).

Although I was only in Peru on a temporary tourist visa, officially registering our company wasn´t too much of a problem. Roger did most o the work anyway, for me it simply meant waiting around at the offices of various notaries and lawyers. Legally I don´t think I was doing anything wrong. Although in Britain, of course, a foreigner doing what I did would certainly be illegal. But as far as I know it is acceptable for a foreigner to do business in Peru on a temporary tourist visa. Added to that immigration laws are far more relaxed and poorly enforced in the third world. Partly because they don´t have the resources to do it and partly because they want to encourage foreigners to enter and stay in the country. Foreigners are much more likely to spend (or lose) ther money in Peru than to commit crime or take advantage of the system. And anyway, I don´t think the authorities could reasonably expect anyone to come in and do what I did in Peru.

Next, Roger and I opened two business bank accounts in the name of BarcaCorp. Foreigners are not allowed to open personal accounts, but because this was a business account in a joint venture with a Peruvian this was apparently legal. In one account we would keep 1000 soles (300 dollars) registered capital and the other account we planned to use for paying for the water system and later to put in revenues from the Alfalfa.

Simultaneous to this CPeru was being replaced by Inca Wasi. Paul, Marco, Roger Susanne and Marge agreed to be knew trustees. Emma and the previous organisers were all frozen out, they were back in Europe at that time and I don´t believe that either of them have returned to Cajamarca since then. I think though that the redoubtable Paul was the one who was really driving the project forward. He has a passionate commitment to Inca Wasi and to helping those kids.

As I remember him he was 25 years old, tall with strawberry-blonde hair. He undeniably has an eccentric personality but is also immensely kind-hearted and generous. He loves a good joke and can laugh at himself. He called me Tommy Boy and we often socialised together and discussed different projects with one another. We had a good laugh and formed a good friendship over the months also talking about frivolous topics such as football ( like a few other friends he is a committed Tottenham Hotspurs supporter) or about some recent sexual excapade. To my mind some of the others involved in Inca Wasi were rather disinterested at the start, but were turned round by Paul´s enthusiasm. I credit him with organising the charity and with keeping it going despite some of the obvious mistakes he made.

Kieran is also a big hit with women. One female volunteer from England fell madly with love with him during her time at Inca Wasi. She left a couple of love letters in his bed telling him how she felt. She maybe was not confident enough to tell him in person. Nobody else suspected anything, she didn´t appear to act strangely around him. I only know because Paul showed me the notes. He also spent a night with a Canadian volunteer although I dodn´t think that led to anything more. He also found a serious girlfriend from Cajamarca, Betty. She was 26 at the time I think but she appeared to be younger. She is tall and slim with long hair and long legs. She is a lawyer by training and of course she is very attractive. They are a lovely couple, I know that Paul is very into her, she seems to be very loyal and patient and puts up with Paul´s occassional excesses.

They are now a married couple and living and working happily in Ireland. Betty is learning English and trying to settle into a career there. But they both make regular visits back to Cajamarca to see Betty´s family and check on the process of Inca Wasi.

During my days living at the hotel Roger used to come to pick me up in his orange truck every morning. Then we would travel over to Huacariz to talk to Malaneo and the workers, then go off to buy supplies or do some other talk so we could get indoors before the rain began in the early afternoon. The process of ploughing and planting was done in a very ad hoc and informal way. We bought supplies at local hardware and agrultural stores. We always got receipts for what we bought but they were never filed away, I didn´t even have a file to keep them in. I just looked at them and then tossed them away.

We didn´t even have an office to work in. I was living in hostal rooms. Roger was living in his dad´s large house, when we had some paperwork to do we would just set up a computer on the large living room table, spread some paperwork around and use that as our office. Roger produced some spreadsheets of the costs involved to set up the project. We also used translation software to communicate with each other sometimes. It helped us that Roger´s father was often away in Lima and the house was empty most of the time apart from Roger and the housekeeper.

Although we had a very good friendship and a great rapport together, Roger´s English was not good. He had forgotten a lot I think because he used to speak very well. And I was still trying to pick up Spanish at that time so we had a few communicacion problems. The transation programme helped me to understand better some of the details. However, within a few months we didn´t need the translation program as we could hold all our conversations in Spanish and now I speak Spanish to a pretty good level.