Whats up guys? I arrived in Peru at like... 7 local time yesterday. We´ve
just been jamming in the hostel at the minute until me and Chloe leave for Piura later today. There´s been so much drama already,
which was pretty terrible for some people (Tom hahahaha).

DAY 1: AIRPORT DRAMA AND BEYOND... First, some of the girls, Connie and Pascal ended up only getting
their Visa stamped in for 30 days. Which is obviously ridiculously
inconvenient, what with us being in the country for 12 months... So we
ended up having to stand around for ages waiting for the change to 180
days (the maximum amount of days, you have to leave and re enter the
country to get it again). And when I say we, I mean me Connie and
Pascal, with me acting as official translator. I blame Connie´s beaut
Scottish accent haha! That wasn´t sarcasm, she has a lovely Scottish accent which may have confused the poor customs lady. Anyway, there was that. Then we went through to see everyone else at baggage reclaim, where they´d got all of our stuff for us, only to see that Tom didn´t have his. Apparently it´s still in Madrid. Luckily, Tom and his partner Bryn don´t go off to their project in Cuzco until the end of the week, so hopefully he should get it back in time. So we went off with Gabby, our country rep to the hostel. We did a little exploring, changed some money and had some breakfast. I also tried Inca Kola for the first time. It´s pretty lush, ridiculously sweet, and almost like Dandelion and Burdock. We all got phones, then went to Gabby´s office at the British Embassy in Lima to get our travel arrangements for today. Nearly all the girls were off at like 3 this morning to get their plane! I got well and truly woken up this morning. I´m kind of sad to see them go, I won´t see them for about another three months :( Then it was Jess and Jenny off to Lima, and then lastly me and Chloe are leaving for the airport at 3, for our 6 o´clock flight. That only leaves Bryn and Tom here in the hostel haha, as they have to wait for the current volunteers to leave their project before they can go to it.

THE MEAT DILEMMA... So, as most of you know I´ve been a veggie all my life. I´ve been trying and trying to eat meat, but it´s been really hard for me to do. I´m trying to eat chicken at the minute, which is easier than beef or anything I think. I´m going to try and eat it as much as possible I think, but it´s just so obsolete... I don´t see the hype about taste... In fact I think it detracts from the taste, because instead of lots of flavours and different texture like I have in veggie stuff to make up for protein and like... content, you just have chunks of meat. I genuinely find the idea of eating something that was once a conscious, living thing, and is now DEAD absolutely disgusting. Oh well... we´ll see once we get to the Aldea.

MY DUTIES AS OFFICIAL TRANSLATOR... Being 1/2 of the 2 people that can speak spanish out of the group at the minute really has it´s down sides. As I am loud and confident with people I know, the group seemed to think it was ok to make ME do all the talking in official situations. I don´t know if you´ve ever entered an embassy before yeah, but you have to go through security checks. And explain why we were there and everything. And when I say ´we´, I actually mean me. It was mortifyingly embarassing and I´m never going to forgive any of them. The moment they´re profficient in Spanish is the moment I shut up.

PLEASE WRITE TO ME TOO! I WOULD LOVE OF YOU TO SEND ME PICTURES ETC, IN THE POST. YOU CAN EMAIL ME TOO. MY ADDRESS IS:
Aldea Infantil San Miguel
Asentamiento Humano
'Los Algarrobos', 5ta etapa
Piura
Peru

& My email is:
LANA.MAYP@GMAIL.COM


Until the next time amigos xxxxxxxxxx

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