Jun 23, 2013 - Un día en Lima

Mañana vamos a Lima para comprar muchas en el mercado. Probaré muchas comidas de Perú incluyendo ceviche. No me gusta pescado pero con suerte me gusta ceviche. Quiero comprar muchas frutas de las tropicales. Compraré recuerdos por mi familia y mis amigos. Voy a tomar muchas fotos de la cuidad. Visitaré muchas monumentos y museos. Vamos a asistir a una misa en la Catedral de Lima. Me encanta la arquitectura de le edificio. ¡Estoy excitado!

Jun 22, 2013 - El campo de las llamas y las alpacas

Hoy hemos trabajando en un campo de llamas y alpacas. Se cepillo la lana de las llamas y las alpacas. Cuando uno llama escupe en la cara de mi amigo, nos reímos hasta que me duele el estomago. Después de nos reímos, caminar en un montón de caca. No se río entonces. Para almuerzo como mucha comida nuevo. Pruebo un escarabajo y no me gusta. Bebo mucha agua para limpiar el sabor.

Jun 21, 2013 - Machu Picchu

Ayer mis amigos y yo escalamos las montañas y llegamos en Machu Picchu, una cuidad de los incas. Exploré en los edificios y los templos. Estudié las ruinas y las estatuas de los dioses Viracocha, Inti, y Pachamama. Tengamos un siento de sobrecogimiento. Había muchas escalaras para caminar y estuvimos cansados. Cuando la noche vino, nosotros fuimos al campamento. Cenamos una comida gigante. Yo dormí bien.

May 19, 2013 - I'm in a period of transition

I have a new job! And I still have an old job. I took a trip out to Urubamba on Friday to meet with Elise again (she’s the one who set up and runs the school), and to see the school and meet some of the teachers and other staff. It all went well… So, now I will be working for a school called El Arte Sano. Getting there wasn’t too difficult. I had been told where to catch a Collectivo – one of those mini-vans they use as buses. It is a street called Pavitos – apparently Collectivos just park there and leave from there once they are full. I...

May 17, 2013 - Lima City Tour and Larco Museum

LindaRose and I are ready to hit the streets after a mini-breakfast at Hitchhikers Hostel. We stopped at Haiti, a popular coffee shop with outdoor seating that´s been in business in Lima for 50 years, for a more substantial bacon and ham and eggs breakfast. Then we shopped until the Turibus took us on a 5-hour double-decker bus tour of the city of Lima. We also got a guided tour of the Larco Museum. Larco´s collection consists of 50,000 pieces and is the largest pre-Colombian art collection in the world. Set in an 18th-century mansion...

May 16, 2013 - grrrrrrr

well i have tons of braw pics to go up but alas the wifi, like every other service in this particular town, is a steaming pile of shite. so ill rant about it instead. amazing, breathtaking place, there honestly arent the words to describe it.....until i switch my attention from the surroundings to the amenities. but first things first....amazing day yesterday getting from cuzco to here. we ended up hiring the dude who drove us from cuzco airport to the hotel (great guy, half inca half spanish, name...wilbert o.O) to bring us to...

May 15, 2013 - Lima to Cuzco

We left Lima yesterday afternoon and flew over the Andes into Cuzco which when we arrived was cold and wet (don't get excited folks, still warmer than at home). Got a taxi to a great old colonial style hotel not far from the town square which we were assured was muy tranquilo. On arriving in Cuzco I was immediately hit with altitude problems, symptoms were as follows: stoned with paranoia, slightly nauseous and the beginnings of a headache which just lingered. Vic was completely unscathed by above illness and we were in bed with lights out...

May 14, 2013 - Cuzco we're here

Just arrived in Cuzco....its baltic! Although Lou is roasting and also off her face and mildly hysterical with the altitude (over 10k feet above sea level) while I'm ragin that I don't have a similar buzz. We're just chillin in our nice hotel with a bucket load of coca tea for a while before going on a food hunt and checkin out the main square before it gets dark. And we both need a decent shit :D

May 13, 2013 - curse the 64gb memory card

So my specially bought huge memory card is fuck all use as the tablet won't read it. So I have to go buy a new one >.< however got some on Louises camera today which it will read. Wandered round Miraflores this morning, went to the beach and ate our dinner then headed for a wee hour bus tour of Miraflores. The sun had managed to burn off some of the fog by then so apart from homicidal tree branches it was a nice wee cruise on the open top deck

May 12, 2013 - Routine

Well, I think I’m in ‘routine’ mode now. Every morning I go to work to teach and every afternoon I prepare for another class. But, the good news is that I have picked up another student starting this week. 1-on-1 this time and for 3 days a week for a couple of weeks. I must admit, I really do enjoy the teaching. It doesn’t feel like work at all, even though I’m pretty exhausted at the end of each class. And the other thing that is exhausting is just getting on top of all the English grammar that we weren’t taught at school. I thought I was...

May 6, 2013 - Working Girl

I’m officially a working girl here. Well, in terms of teaching, not the other connotation of ‘working girl’. (Although the second option would definitely pay better!) My students are 3 friends, all in university and all studying tourism. They are supposedly Intermediate level, based on the course work they completed at their school. But, in reality? They are struggling with pre-intermediate stuff. So, the school has agreed to re-do their intermediate course, but fast-tracked. So, that’s what I’m doing with them – cramming a 3 month course...

May 2, 2013 - The emotional ups and downs

It’s been an emotional roller-coaster for the past few days. The school that I nearly had a job with last week sent me an email saying that they weren’t hiring anyone for May because they didn’t have enough students. (Their English language school is just new for them, but their Spanish school has been running for 6 or 7 years). I felt very disappointed. This was the one school that I thought I had a real chance at. As there has been deathly silence from all of the other schools I approached, I was pretty much convinced that the only...