Peru Postal System FAIL

    Long story short; it sucks. We got permission for me to leave colegio early today so that I could accompany Nancy to el centro to pick up my package before 12pm like how the second man told her was needed. She brought along every single paper she owns, (her ID, marriage certificate, everything) and my AFS ID card and everything. We filled out the long stupid forms a second time and did everything they have asked us to do. My package has now been in Peru for ONE MONTH, and I cannot get it until Friday. The second man, aka mr grumpy ass, deserves a customer complaint. He just obviously did not care about us as customers, or even pay attention to us. He brushed us off and said that I needed my passport (with the visa stamp page) and a photocopy of that page (which I don't have) to reclaim my package, even though Nancy told him last week that my passport is still in Lima, AND the first guy told us my AFS card was sufficient!!! He didn't care. There was no convincing or conversing with him. Then he told us to go to migration and figure something out.
       We went to migration and it was closed, but a man was there who told us that if I don't have my passport, we need to go stand in line at the bank and fill out more papers and then pay a certain amount of money AND THEN go back to try and get my package. Then we returned to the post office to ask if we could return for my package after going to the bank, because it was 12:30pmish and they stop letting people in at 12 (we got there at 11) but work until the people that arrived before 12 are serviced. The grumpy man was a total dick. Excuse my language. We waited patiently for him to finish with the other customer, and then tried to speak to him for one moment but he just IGNORED US as he was putting on his coat and started walking away. Like actually IGNORED AND PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR US as he walked away. I was shocked. What a lack of interest I have NEVER seen before. That's not acceptable. Sooooo rude I couldn't believe it. Then we asked at the door for the other man who helped us the first week, and they gave us the building of his other job, where he works on Wednesdays.
        So, after calling Jose, we walked over to this other building to wait for him to get off work at 1:30pm. We sat down outside and I told Nancy "I feel like using bad words!" as a way of saying I'm frustrated, and she started laughing and asked me to teach her swears in english! It was hilAAARious hahahhaa. I couldn't stop giggling, especially because her pronunciation made them suuuuper cute and funny. We both laughed a lot hahaha. Anyways, as we're sitting outside looking in the glass doors/window, Nancy says "Omg, it's the senor!" and there was Mr Grumpy man inside the building. So, because we didn't want him to see us there (he'd know what we were doing, or think we followed him, which we totally didn't), we ran away giggling and hid behind a huge palm tree in the courtyard thing. Then we actually hid and rotated behind it, just like in the movies, so that he wouldn't see us when he exited the building and walked past. HAHAHA I'm actually starting to love Nancy. We're getting in some hilarious bonding moments. Finally, after Grumpy was gone, Jorge, the first, younger, and friendly man, exited and spared us a moment of his time. He said not to worry too much and that when we come again on Friday it will be him who is working, and he is going to try to talk to his boss about it and such. Oh. My. God. What a nightmare.

      Maybe next time don't even put my name on the package at all, just Nancy Huamani Bendezu!! Man. I bet the next one is going to get here before the first one. o_O

     Then I came home and went out for lunch with Fran and her friends instead of always being with Jhoselyn. I'm glad to be spending more time with her, and she's a lot happier for it! It seems like now everything's balancing out a bit more, but I really am still hoping for my own room, because I need a bit of space still. I'm starting to really enjoy my time with Nancy, doing random errands or just whatever. Feels good because it makes her feel good. And when she feels good, she acts less crazy! It's weird because before the problem was TOO MUCH time with her, but now the more time I spend with her the better it gets! She also is teaching me how to sew because my pyjamas are super ripped because they're too long and I was too lazy to fix them before  the damage...hehe oops. And she always brings me tea for my coughing throat and stuff. :) Also I've been playing my violin again, trying to start practicing every day. I've lost it a bit, only been playing feliz cumpleanos, so it's haaard to get my relaxed left hand back and stuff. And today I did my homework! :O Holy vaca cow! And Gabriel, the little one, is speaking more and more every day. Soooo cute. And I'm teaching him words in english too, because Nancy wants him to learn while he's young so it will be easier to learn later when he's grown up knowing both. Tomorrow or someday I'm going to write out all the basics of english grammar and general vocab for Junior, who really wants to speak more english. He and I have also been talking more together lately as well. He wants me to speak only in english to him haha but he knows a bit.

     Now I'm off to a chocolate fondu AFS reunion to look at pics of our Caral trip and swap them..except I erased them from my memory card and have no USB stick. Oops!