i want to write about all the amazing things i have done in the past 5 days, but then i would have to sit here and think and remember and write and i dont want to spend time doing that right now. fuck. i dont want to leave this place. i dont want to live in the states anymore. i dont want to see a gas station on every corner. or a walmart. or any ( Read more... )

so i had an eventful morning. i dont know where i left off but yesterday was a bummer and it rained a whole bunch and nothing really went on. catie, freddy(the guy who knows how to make it) and i decided on 8am this morning to make pan de coca, because while most people in peru have ovens, they use them for storage and just use the stove top part. ( Read more... )

things were going really well for a while there. i was working in the morning with the ladies in the soup kitchen, spending the afternoons smoking reading listening to music and generally chilling with the artesanoes, and nights were pretty much the same thing, only with more drinking/smoking and less reading ( Read more... )

im so fucking excited. my journey just got so much better ( Read more... )

soo much to write. no time to convey all the things i am experiencing ( Read more... )

ugh. i am so very very over the language barrier. the past two days i have been working in the kitchen at the orphanage because one morning i stumbled into it and asked if they needed help. they all responded with excited 'si, por favor!'s..and the rest is history. it is a nice change from the hectic nursery and definately not as sad. yesterday i ( Read more... )

i forgot i wanted to list some music i have been listening to recently. so i dont forget. cause i will.
bear vs shark
sponge
the doors
joy division
led zep
bob marley (haha of course)
metric
velvet underground
blur
ani difranco
311

theres prolly more but those are the ones that i remeber vividly. and for a reason. :)

well, yesterday afternoon really, i went and sat in the park with my friend Raquel and helped her make necklaces and we tried communicating with our dictionaries. it was hard but lots of fun. you guys know all that hemp jewerly people make for fun in the states? well turns out you could live off it if you wanted to in peru. not the easiest life, ( Read more... )

all governments are corrupt. all of them. i dont believe otherwise. this weekend on my bumpy two hour ride to the mountains, the peruvian police stopped our van and we had to wait 30 min and then pay 20 soles... eugh. anyway. i climbed my first mountain! whoo. i wont lie, it was the closest thing to being tortured i´ve endured for some parts. it ( Read more... )

- in quinua, i played volleyball with two local girls who were prolly around 12. one of the best times in my life. i wanted to ask them to play so bad but then they asked me! i was really excited ( Read more... )