Okay, not a new head, but I definitely have a new mind... which I can never remember the word for mind in Spanish... anyway.
Ah! I only have a few days left in Peru! So sad! It´s crazy on how fact this week flew by. In Chile the weeks seemed to pass by normally, but I feel like I just got here yesterday and I´ve been here for exactly a week. I´ve been enjoying my time here thoroughly.
Let´s see... what have I done since my last post...
Well, Sunday I got to paintball with guns for the first time on the highest paintball field in the world with Miguel and some of his friends. I only got hit twice, and hid for most of it squealing not to get hit... which later produced some mocking from the boys on the bus ride from Poroy to Cusco. A lot of fun! Between trying to understand the Spanish, speak the Spanish, while learning to play the games they throw at me, it´s been frustrating yet entertaining. The only day that I´ve had the worse time trying to understand and speak was yesterday when I went to ride horses to some ruins around Cusco. Long story, but in short the first 2 hours trying to figure what was actually going on left me feeling alone and on the verge of tears standing in the middle of nowhere. But all was resolved and I got the spend the morning riding horses with 2 nurses from California. Though this whole week I´ve been trying to avoid the tourists and be recognized as a tourist (which I can´t hide from and finally bought some ice cream and sat in the main square like all the other tourists today), it was really nice to be with some other North Americans. The advetnure yesterday ended up with the 3 of us walking down a million stairs from Cristo Blanco into town. I was exhausted, and yet I had to stay awake to go to class an hour later. Other than that I have been enjoying just walking around Cusco in the morning, going to class for 2 hours in the afternoon, then return home to read and watch Mexican soap operas over dinner. I also have the occasional evenings where I play card games with Miguel into the night.
Upcoming events include a welcome home party for a friend of the boys I went to paintball with, who is coming from Texas, and a going away party for me in one. I´m sure yet when this will take place, either tonight or Sunday. It should be entertaining to say the least. I also get to go to Machu Picchu tomorrow! Very exciting, but it´s going to be a long day. I have to leave at 6:20am and I don´t return until about 9pm. But at least I get to see it. Other than that I need to figure when I get to eat cuy and llama, but I´m going to try to soak up as much as Peru as I can before I have to leave. Already in my mind I am hoping to come back here for a longer period of time.
Welp, time to head home for lunch!
Vaya con Dios,
Leah =)
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