Tuesday
After our AFS meeting thingy about the 4 day Tortugas camp we had, Mona and I went for a milkshake and I then accompanied her to her house. My hair had gotten super awesomely long, but frizzy crappy split ends. Entonces, we took a pair of scissors out in the street (her mom wouldn’t let us in the house) and cut my hair on a windy street curb. Yay gringo hair flying in la calle! Hahaha wow I never would have let something happen to my hair before, but now it’s like.. ooOOo big deal... it’s just hair... and it actually turned out lovely J despite the wind and lack of knowledge and giggles hahaha thanks Mona!
After our AFS meeting thingy about the 4 day Tortugas camp we had, Mona and I went for a milkshake and I then accompanied her to her house. My hair had gotten super awesomely long, but frizzy crappy split ends. Entonces, we took a pair of scissors out in the street (her mom wouldn’t let us in the house) and cut my hair on a windy street curb. Yay gringo hair flying in la calle! Hahaha wow I never would have let something happen to my hair before, but now it’s like.. ooOOo big deal... it’s just hair... and it actually turned out lovely J despite the wind and lack of knowledge and giggles hahaha thanks Mona!
Wednesday the 19th
At 8am Mona came to my house to go huntos to the Chimbote bus terminal with a huge ass bag of cancha (popcorn) that my lovely Nancy made for us for the ride. She’s so cute sometimes. At the bus station we met up w almost all the other afs peru’ers (that I met at the Lima orientation in my first 3 days in Peru) and crammed into a tiny bus to drive to Tortugas beach. There we stayed in some religious retiro casa thing and I enjoyed MY OWN ROOM for the first time in 5 months. I was lonely.. haha! Just kidding, it was delightful and I loved it. Mona and Ondine were in the rooms beside me. Then we all went down and had some chill time on the rocky beach w pelicans and waves and starfishes and other sea creatures. Then we just enjoyed the sun and napped on some big shore rocks and bought ice cream from a guy walking around w a cooler. (there’s ice cream guys everywhere here in peru) Then after breakfast we went farther along the beach and a few of us non-pussys went swimming. For some reason I thought the German’s would have handled the cold water better lol I’m told Canada gets A LOT FREAKING COLDER than where any of my euro friends live hahaha anyways. Then Ondine and Mona and I found some creepy weird thing that had no eyes or visible mouth. Like an orange slug with an armadilo (i can’t stand spelling that with two l’s because that’s a ‘y’ sound! Uggh) shell that could roll up into a defensive closed ball. Then we sat on a dock and i burned my ass off. I thought my hair was covering my shoulders/back (totally forgot that Mona and I had cut it shorter..) and it was windy so i didn’t think i was burning. It also wasn’t very long tiempo! The bathing suit X-men burn didn’t show up until 2 hours after we’d returned and I thought I hadn’t burned.. Then I went pee behind some hidden craggy sharp black rocks and didn’t see all the scittering huge crabs everywhere. After the freaking huge lunch I met the American boy from Missouri (who wasn’t in lima cuz he arrived late) and was pleasantly surprised. Not so stereotypical as I’d stereotypically (oops) expected, except for his obsession with American football hahaha Then we had more bonding and talking and hanging out time (which was pretty much the whole 4 days; awesome) before the first AFS workshop thingy. There was a photo contest that i was too late to have sent photos in for but yeah. Then mona and i went for a walk to buy apples but returned having left her room key 10min away down the beach and left dinner early to run back in the dark and find it. HOLY RIDICULOUS SUNBURN. I still can’t sleep on my back or turn my head/shoulders all the way to either side.
At 8am Mona came to my house to go huntos to the Chimbote bus terminal with a huge ass bag of cancha (popcorn) that my lovely Nancy made for us for the ride. She’s so cute sometimes. At the bus station we met up w almost all the other afs peru’ers (that I met at the Lima orientation in my first 3 days in Peru) and crammed into a tiny bus to drive to Tortugas beach. There we stayed in some religious retiro casa thing and I enjoyed MY OWN ROOM for the first time in 5 months. I was lonely.. haha! Just kidding, it was delightful and I loved it. Mona and Ondine were in the rooms beside me. Then we all went down and had some chill time on the rocky beach w pelicans and waves and starfishes and other sea creatures. Then we just enjoyed the sun and napped on some big shore rocks and bought ice cream from a guy walking around w a cooler. (there’s ice cream guys everywhere here in peru) Then after breakfast we went farther along the beach and a few of us non-pussys went swimming. For some reason I thought the German’s would have handled the cold water better lol I’m told Canada gets A LOT FREAKING COLDER than where any of my euro friends live hahaha anyways. Then Ondine and Mona and I found some creepy weird thing that had no eyes or visible mouth. Like an orange slug with an armadilo (i can’t stand spelling that with two l’s because that’s a ‘y’ sound! Uggh) shell that could roll up into a defensive closed ball. Then we sat on a dock and i burned my ass off. I thought my hair was covering my shoulders/back (totally forgot that Mona and I had cut it shorter..) and it was windy so i didn’t think i was burning. It also wasn’t very long tiempo! The bathing suit X-men burn didn’t show up until 2 hours after we’d returned and I thought I hadn’t burned.. Then I went pee behind some hidden craggy sharp black rocks and didn’t see all the scittering huge crabs everywhere. After the freaking huge lunch I met the American boy from Missouri (who wasn’t in lima cuz he arrived late) and was pleasantly surprised. Not so stereotypical as I’d stereotypically (oops) expected, except for his obsession with American football hahaha Then we had more bonding and talking and hanging out time (which was pretty much the whole 4 days; awesome) before the first AFS workshop thingy. There was a photo contest that i was too late to have sent photos in for but yeah. Then mona and i went for a walk to buy apples but returned having left her room key 10min away down the beach and left dinner early to run back in the dark and find it. HOLY RIDICULOUS SUNBURN. I still can’t sleep on my back or turn my head/shoulders all the way to either side.
Thursday
Thursday morning I woke up early (by accident) at 5, 6, and 7am but decided to wake up anyways because it was soooo beautiful. The sun was lighting up the sky and little calibris or something were chirping and waves were lapping. I’ve never witnessed a morning in Peru so quiet and peaceful and amazing. I hadn’t even realized how loud Chimbote is, or had forgotten! Amazing. After some refreshing, tranquila morning sun sky silent yoga, I drank my breakfast tea (kind of obsessed with it lately. I went on a body cleanse from all the fatty fried food and sugary hot milk drinks; so now i’m a tea lover.) Later on more afs students arrived and I reburned when we had more beach time. I had the sunscreen with me because I was going to ask someone to put it on my back for me. Apparently I totally forgot. But this is only the 2nd/3rd time I’ve been sunburnt in Peru for 5 months!! J Ondine brought out her slackline and tied it under the shelter above the beach. It’s suuuper hard to balance but can feel like you’re flying! After not being hungry for lunch of the inside of a cow’s stomach, we presented our Peruvian cities in an AFS “lo q se de mi ciudad” workshop thing. Some people brought typical treats to share as well. Then more bonding and hanging and applying sunburn cream until dinner time, where we were laughing til death with Xaver and Liam and Juliette while learning german and “swiss german”, which is apparently 1000 times different. This camp was amazing in the amount of Spanish I spoke. Mona and I almost always speak in Spanish to eachother, but I was stunned at how much farther along we are than everybody else, who have been speaking too much of their native languages (w their AFS friends in their cities) to have progressed much. We often can’t even tell what language we’re speaking, or think Peruvians can’t understand us when we’re speaking Spanish because we think we’re speaking English! Hahhaa it’s so confusing and awesome. Mona also told me that I often switch between the two languages without even realizing it! But this day especially we didn’t speak a word of English until I was explaining something and didn’t know the word in Spanish and said it in English. It sounded so strange and wrong that we started laughing because we hadn’t even noticed we’d been speaking Spanish the whole day! I often think in Spanish without thinking ;) Awesome. Then I won some ugly face photo contests (which I almost ALWAYS win ;)) and listened to the Beatles and a few of us shared a cervesa on the beach past the sunset.
Thursday morning I woke up early (by accident) at 5, 6, and 7am but decided to wake up anyways because it was soooo beautiful. The sun was lighting up the sky and little calibris or something were chirping and waves were lapping. I’ve never witnessed a morning in Peru so quiet and peaceful and amazing. I hadn’t even realized how loud Chimbote is, or had forgotten! Amazing. After some refreshing, tranquila morning sun sky silent yoga, I drank my breakfast tea (kind of obsessed with it lately. I went on a body cleanse from all the fatty fried food and sugary hot milk drinks; so now i’m a tea lover.) Later on more afs students arrived and I reburned when we had more beach time. I had the sunscreen with me because I was going to ask someone to put it on my back for me. Apparently I totally forgot. But this is only the 2nd/3rd time I’ve been sunburnt in Peru for 5 months!! J Ondine brought out her slackline and tied it under the shelter above the beach. It’s suuuper hard to balance but can feel like you’re flying! After not being hungry for lunch of the inside of a cow’s stomach, we presented our Peruvian cities in an AFS “lo q se de mi ciudad” workshop thing. Some people brought typical treats to share as well. Then more bonding and hanging and applying sunburn cream until dinner time, where we were laughing til death with Xaver and Liam and Juliette while learning german and “swiss german”, which is apparently 1000 times different. This camp was amazing in the amount of Spanish I spoke. Mona and I almost always speak in Spanish to eachother, but I was stunned at how much farther along we are than everybody else, who have been speaking too much of their native languages (w their AFS friends in their cities) to have progressed much. We often can’t even tell what language we’re speaking, or think Peruvians can’t understand us when we’re speaking Spanish because we think we’re speaking English! Hahhaa it’s so confusing and awesome. Mona also told me that I often switch between the two languages without even realizing it! But this day especially we didn’t speak a word of English until I was explaining something and didn’t know the word in Spanish and said it in English. It sounded so strange and wrong that we started laughing because we hadn’t even noticed we’d been speaking Spanish the whole day! I often think in Spanish without thinking ;) Awesome. Then I won some ugly face photo contests (which I almost ALWAYS win ;)) and listened to the Beatles and a few of us shared a cervesa on the beach past the sunset.
Friday
was the best day ever. After breaky we had MORE chill time on the deck thing w Ondine's slackline and I napped in the sun after learning some dutch w Emily. I'm jealous of the Belgians. After a quick redo of french, I'm learning Dutch!! Then German. Then everything else ;) The AFS workshop was odd. Started with everyone walking around screaming out their different animal sounds. I enjoyed being a rooster. Then we were put into many small groups to talk to the AFS person about every single detail and problem of our lives in Peru so far and how we could improve it. Our AFS volunteer was, with my luck, ignorant. He took a call from his "special girl" when someone was telling him all their problems. I couldn't handle thinking about my whole experience and difficulties and problems that I've had and things I've gone through and not even been able to write about. I started llorando (crying) before my turn and just couldn’t do it. I slipped away to the bathroom and just fell apart. I didn't feel that talking about all my old frustrations and horribleness would help me 3 weeks before my return. There is no point in reopening old wounds. I have long made peace and fallen in love with my family, problems or not. Then we drew our problems and he read way too far into our doodles (one girl drew a turtle for "turtle beach" and he went all YOU ARE THE TURTLE, ADAPTING TOO SLOWLY" haha) and then chilled and ate chocolate almonds to calm down again. Then we saw a demon exorcist constipated child screaming on a pile of gravel and went and socialized some more. I freaking love all my AFS around the world friends. This has been an intercambio of so much more than just one culture. It's so hard to think about leaving anybody anywhere. :'( Mona and Ondine and I went and bought cookies and apples and had fun making sunset silhouette pictures by the beach. Dinner was a REAL SALAD AND FISH OMFG SAAAAALAD!!!! I have never eaten so many vegetables in one meal. ever. And then all the students hungout on the deck thing w music speakers listening to amazing cultural music that Anja brought from Iquitos. So relaxing :) At around midnight I got the amazing idea (from Anja and Senne) to go swimming. I was with Mona and Juliette, and we were all joking about it but going along as if we were serious. Apparently I'm "a crazy girl who is so infectiously influential that she made me go skinny dipping. i love you mia!" Fuimos! It was so heavenly hahaha freezing cold and sharp rocks and waves under the peruvian moon. It was crazy that it was so normal. We were laughing too loudly I guess, because a Peruvian shone a flashlight around which freaked us out hahah luckily our clothes were still there when we got out xD. Then we took hilarious pictures and Anjya with her sweet camera weird shaking head medusa shots. (that's the best way i can describe it..) Then after some cervesitas and more chill time, I went skinny dipping again with Anja, Ondine and Senne. It was colder but we stayed in longer and woo! Felt so alive and clean and fresh and awake :D After listening to some hilarious Belgians and a france ganster, we went to bed at 3am.
was the best day ever. After breaky we had MORE chill time on the deck thing w Ondine's slackline and I napped in the sun after learning some dutch w Emily. I'm jealous of the Belgians. After a quick redo of french, I'm learning Dutch!! Then German. Then everything else ;) The AFS workshop was odd. Started with everyone walking around screaming out their different animal sounds. I enjoyed being a rooster. Then we were put into many small groups to talk to the AFS person about every single detail and problem of our lives in Peru so far and how we could improve it. Our AFS volunteer was, with my luck, ignorant. He took a call from his "special girl" when someone was telling him all their problems. I couldn't handle thinking about my whole experience and difficulties and problems that I've had and things I've gone through and not even been able to write about. I started llorando (crying) before my turn and just couldn’t do it. I slipped away to the bathroom and just fell apart. I didn't feel that talking about all my old frustrations and horribleness would help me 3 weeks before my return. There is no point in reopening old wounds. I have long made peace and fallen in love with my family, problems or not. Then we drew our problems and he read way too far into our doodles (one girl drew a turtle for "turtle beach" and he went all YOU ARE THE TURTLE, ADAPTING TOO SLOWLY" haha) and then chilled and ate chocolate almonds to calm down again. Then we saw a demon exorcist constipated child screaming on a pile of gravel and went and socialized some more. I freaking love all my AFS around the world friends. This has been an intercambio of so much more than just one culture. It's so hard to think about leaving anybody anywhere. :'( Mona and Ondine and I went and bought cookies and apples and had fun making sunset silhouette pictures by the beach. Dinner was a REAL SALAD AND FISH OMFG SAAAAALAD!!!! I have never eaten so many vegetables in one meal. ever. And then all the students hungout on the deck thing w music speakers listening to amazing cultural music that Anja brought from Iquitos. So relaxing :) At around midnight I got the amazing idea (from Anja and Senne) to go swimming. I was with Mona and Juliette, and we were all joking about it but going along as if we were serious. Apparently I'm "a crazy girl who is so infectiously influential that she made me go skinny dipping. i love you mia!" Fuimos! It was so heavenly hahaha freezing cold and sharp rocks and waves under the peruvian moon. It was crazy that it was so normal. We were laughing too loudly I guess, because a Peruvian shone a flashlight around which freaked us out hahah luckily our clothes were still there when we got out xD. Then we took hilarious pictures and Anjya with her sweet camera weird shaking head medusa shots. (that's the best way i can describe it..) Then after some cervesitas and more chill time, I went skinny dipping again with Anja, Ondine and Senne. It was colder but we stayed in longer and woo! Felt so alive and clean and fresh and awake :D After listening to some hilarious Belgians and a france ganster, we went to bed at 3am.
Saturday
woke up, breakfast, afs compromises (a promise to change/fix whatever problems we've had), danced and remembered oldschool music, chilled in sun and cut hair, had lunch, said goodbyes, went to buy food and burned the shit out of my feet because it was super hot and I lent Ondine my flipflops because hers broke. i've never had sunburns/blisters on the BOTTOMS of my feet before. it's awful. It included lots of hopping and piggy back rides and strange laughs/looks from Peruvians :P At the restaurant a weird Peru lady put her 5yr old in between our chairs and took pictures... then we went back n went to the beach to go swimming and swam to some boat and floated in it just chillin. I found some pretty beach glass, went back, showered, drank wine, chilled w music and massages and my new German cello guy friend, did yoga for the sunset with Ondine, packed my things and walked to the restaurant with all the remaining AFS people, ate drank tea and drove to Chimbote w manu chau playing and said our final goodbyes and arrived home after 11pm. Too lazy to fix this last part up, you get the idea though.
woke up, breakfast, afs compromises (a promise to change/fix whatever problems we've had), danced and remembered oldschool music, chilled in sun and cut hair, had lunch, said goodbyes, went to buy food and burned the shit out of my feet because it was super hot and I lent Ondine my flipflops because hers broke. i've never had sunburns/blisters on the BOTTOMS of my feet before. it's awful. It included lots of hopping and piggy back rides and strange laughs/looks from Peruvians :P At the restaurant a weird Peru lady put her 5yr old in between our chairs and took pictures... then we went back n went to the beach to go swimming and swam to some boat and floated in it just chillin. I found some pretty beach glass, went back, showered, drank wine, chilled w music and massages and my new German cello guy friend, did yoga for the sunset with Ondine, packed my things and walked to the restaurant with all the remaining AFS people, ate drank tea and drove to Chimbote w manu chau playing and said our final goodbyes and arrived home after 11pm. Too lazy to fix this last part up, you get the idea though.
My sunburn is the worst I've ever had in my life. I think I have scales on my left shoulder blade?? So gross and red and dry and painful. We put slices of pepino (fruit) on me for a good half hour last night but I still have the crazy X Men sign tattooed onto me. Oh man.
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