Hola!
I arrived in Cusco Monday morning around 11 am after two very grueling days of travel full of missed flights, jerky airline employees, and very sore shoulders from carrying around my backpack everywhere. Not surprisingly, my baggage didn´t make it to Cusco with me and still hasn´t arrived. I´m not really sure what I am going to do if it is lost forever. Pretty much all of the clothes I own are in that bag. I have been wearing the same couple outfits since I´ve been here and the lavenderia (laundry mat) never seems to be open when I go by. Cusco is very charming with incredible views wherever you look. I´m having a little bit of difficulty adjusting to the altitude I think. I was very sick to my stomach about 2 am last night. My host dad thinks it is because I had pizza for dinner. They never eat a big meal for dinner because it isn´t good for digestion in the altitude. So I think I definitely learned my lesson. My stomach is better today, but now I have a cough, probably because the temperature changes a lot throughout the day.
The other students are all a really great bunch. They hail from New York, Holland, Switzerland, Australia, and England. We all went out to a pub and restaurant for a while yesterday and I really enjoyed getting to talk with a lot of them. My host family seem really great so far. My dad only speaks a couple of words of English, but his wife speaks a bit more. Lunchtime is really fun with our Spanglish and listening to American 80´s music and the delicious homemade soup (today we had arroz con pollo which was fantastic). I have actually been drinking a lot of tea. It´s cocoa tea and doesn´t actually taste like tea. I even ate cocoa leaves in it today. But they pretty much believe it to be a cure all for everything and since I haven´t been in tip top shape, I´ve been drinking it at pretty much every meal.
Today the school had a program where we got to make chocolate in molds which was pretty neat and really yummy.
I arrived in Cusco Monday morning around 11 am after two very grueling days of travel full of missed flights, jerky airline employees, and very sore shoulders from carrying around my backpack everywhere. Not surprisingly, my baggage didn´t make it to Cusco with me and still hasn´t arrived. I´m not really sure what I am going to do if it is lost forever. Pretty much all of the clothes I own are in that bag. I have been wearing the same couple outfits since I´ve been here and the lavenderia (laundry mat) never seems to be open when I go by. Cusco is very charming with incredible views wherever you look. I´m having a little bit of difficulty adjusting to the altitude I think. I was very sick to my stomach about 2 am last night. My host dad thinks it is because I had pizza for dinner. They never eat a big meal for dinner because it isn´t good for digestion in the altitude. So I think I definitely learned my lesson. My stomach is better today, but now I have a cough, probably because the temperature changes a lot throughout the day.
The other students are all a really great bunch. They hail from New York, Holland, Switzerland, Australia, and England. We all went out to a pub and restaurant for a while yesterday and I really enjoyed getting to talk with a lot of them. My host family seem really great so far. My dad only speaks a couple of words of English, but his wife speaks a bit more. Lunchtime is really fun with our Spanglish and listening to American 80´s music and the delicious homemade soup (today we had arroz con pollo which was fantastic). I have actually been drinking a lot of tea. It´s cocoa tea and doesn´t actually taste like tea. I even ate cocoa leaves in it today. But they pretty much believe it to be a cure all for everything and since I haven´t been in tip top shape, I´ve been drinking it at pretty much every meal.
Today the school had a program where we got to make chocolate in molds which was pretty neat and really yummy.
Tomorrow we have salsa lessons, which I am, of course, really looking forward to, and Friday, horse back riding, which should be really nice as well.
Spanish classes seem like they are going to be really good. Our classes are really small. There are only two others in mine now. However, my instructor at the moment (we will change weekly) seems to think my name is ¨Shayla.¨ I suppose it has the right letters in it so I´m not too bothered. I´m actually really happy with my Spanish. I´m communicating better than I thought I would.
I suppose that is all for now. I think I am going to stay in this evening and get some rest just so I´m not doing too much all at once. I hope very much that when I return home my luggage will somehow have magically appeared and the lavenderia will be open.
Hasta luego,
Ashley
Spanish classes seem like they are going to be really good. Our classes are really small. There are only two others in mine now. However, my instructor at the moment (we will change weekly) seems to think my name is ¨Shayla.¨ I suppose it has the right letters in it so I´m not too bothered. I´m actually really happy with my Spanish. I´m communicating better than I thought I would.
I suppose that is all for now. I think I am going to stay in this evening and get some rest just so I´m not doing too much all at once. I hope very much that when I return home my luggage will somehow have magically appeared and the lavenderia will be open.
Hasta luego,
Ashley
TEA?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
ReplyDeleteFor the record, it doesn´t taste like tea.
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