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AREQUIPA. craziest adventure yet. so it all began with this massive double decker bus with blaring, horrendous, sort of tribal music along with music video. i was sitting on the top floor in the front row with a fantastic view of the night drive. the bus left at about 8 pm and was due to arrive in arequipa at 6 am. the road to arequipa is a windy, mountainous, scary as hell journey that was pretty awesome and terrifying at the same time. being in the front allowed me to witness the constant possible ways i could die, but the views were so cool and we were literally on the side of a mountain, taking up both lanes because the bus was so large. after half sleeping and half freezing because peruvians don´t seem to believe ... read more

my kids are the most draining little things ever. im so exhausted by them but i´m there and i play and i teach and i read to them and they are cute but loud and chaotic and i can only understand like every 5th word they say cuz they speak some mix of quechua and spanish. AH. but i was teaching a girl how to do some dance moves and she LOVED it which was awesome. i´m also freaked though because one of the other volunteers at the after school program with me told me that the kids have fleas and thats why we have red bumps. SO EFFING GROSS. but the doctor assured me that wasn´t the case. then again he prescribed me 50 mg of steroids. so again there is nothing i can do ... read more

hola amigos! cuzco is just so damn cool. i walk around and it hits me that this place is unlike any other and i love it for that. yesterday was the really important and huge incan holiday of inti raymi and celebrations started wedensday morning and ended late last night. there have been outrageous, colorful, loud, incredible parades for over 24 hours with different groups and places around the city represented in traditional clothing, playing their specific music, and doing traditional dances. there was even a dance off in the plaza de armas of traditional incan dances. all of the towns and schools prepare their own march and it was saweeet. it was crazy busy and more people packed into one street than i have ever seen in my entire life. on thursday- the offical day ... read more

Hi Guys! we have made it in peru and excuse my lack of punctuation and capitalization because i still haven´t figured out this computer. after an excrutiating long day of travel, especially the overnight flight from nyc to lima, brods and i finally made it! cusco is incredible. it´s this small city right in the middle of the mountains. the flight from lima to cusco was breath taking- it literally felt like we could touch the mountains. the first day i felt like i had been hit by a truck and was really sick, but i´m feeling so much better today just a headache and short of breath. on sunday, we arrived at maximo nivel and were taken to the house we are staying in in the neighborhood of la florida. the house is cute, clean, ... read more