6/9/09 from my flat hola, time for a wee update, after arriving finally in Arequipa and getting to the hostel, myself and Tomek had a mooch about town, I popped along to the language school to arrange my classes and accomodation for the next day, and on the way back we went into the monastery and had a tour with a guide, so glad we got the guide as she was great, really stiff at first but cracked towards the end and started making jokes, she showed us the living quarters the Dominican nuns had back in the last century, sorry, two centuries ago, and told us about some of their practices, it's quite sick really, some of them there were brainwashed from the age of 3, not allowed to have belongings until they were 16
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