From Peru!

I fianlly made it here! Wow is it different, but as different as it is, I feel very comfortable here. Everything is very strange, including this keyboard Í´m typing on, so there´s a reason there might be a lot of errors. it is very third world here. there are so many dogs and cats running in the streets..no colloars, no identification. they leave you alone, and you just have to watch your step so you don´t step in any poo. the people are very nice and yes, i´ve gotten a few whistles, put no real stares or anything. my family is really nice and my spanish has picked up a lot, though i still only understand about 25 percent of what is being told to me. i have trouble saying what i want, but it´s only the second day.

this morning i was supposed to go to my school in ollantaytampo, but there was no one at the school! they apparently just cancel school on random days for any kind of celebration. but i will go again friday, thursday´s i have off. the bus ride was extremely different. they pack as many people in there as possible. today happened to be market day, so a lot of people were coming to urubamba to sell their goods. ollantaytampo is pretty, from what i saw. they have cobbled streets, much like in boston. they call it the inca city becaue there are ruins there and lot of the city was built by the incas. i think i´ll go there this weekend to walk around.

i met some of the other volunteers last night. most are from england, one from germany, and one other american! unfortunatly, most live in pisco, about an hour away. but they are fun. there is another volunteer living with me and my family. she´s nice and has only been here for a week, but has gotten around pretty well. she´s been helping me.

there´´s so much to tell that i don´t know where to start! once i figure out the picture part, i will post some pictures. it´s funny because i got picked up at the airport yesterday and they drove me quickly around cusco, at at all what i thought it´d be, and then drove to urubamba. they were driving "safe" but it was fast! so i did not get a lot of good pictures and i´ve felt too much like a tourist to take any more. but i will be taking some more once i feel more comfrortable and less liek a tourist.

mas a venir! chao!