Ahhh!! !!!

Leaving in a mere few hours at ONE IN THE MORNING for Colca Canyon!! The French Ceeder, Aline, and I opted for the CRAZY GRINGAS WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? Trek that leaves at one, starts hiking at 5, stops hiking at 9, and starts hiking the next day at 5 again. I know I´m going to die. Really. Good bye, everyone. BUT, if you had the choice between this and the old lady tour that spends 7 hours in a bus and only one hour walking, what would you do? It´s kind of like Survivor. They can never get anyone to do this tour cause it´s so hard, so it´s just me, Aline, two other crazy tourists I don´t know, and a guide. Don´t really know particularly where we´re going, like cities. Just the Colca. Don´t know what language the guide speaks. Don´t know where these other two ppl are from. But, hey, what the hell. Also thinking about SCALING THE MISTI next week, Tuesday or so. It´s 20 degrees below zero up there. Let me know if you love ¨Michigan Weather¨....
LA GRINGA

Cuzco here I come!

So, things are great here, hard to believe I have to leave in 2 weeks. Thought about extending my stay, but since CEEDs aren´t paid its a little hard. However, planning on doing all my tourist-y stuff pretty much next week, going to Colca with la Francesa y Cuzco for Inti Raymi con el mexicano y el finlandes. Chevere. See yall on the flip side..sounds like theres some hott stuff going down in AIESEC US, so maybe I better get back to get in on the action.... = )

EARTHQUAKE!!!!

Yes, that´s right. I´ve survived my first earthquake, right here in Arequipa, Peru. Yesterday about 6:10 pm here, Southern Peru and Northern Chile were rocked with some major quakers. Not too bad where I was, only a 5.4, but Chile got a 9.8 in some places with many missing and more dead. For those of you working on your Arequipeño culture, the last serious earthquake here was in 2001, which toppled countless buildings and destroyed the two grand towers on the Plaza de Armas. It took about a year and a half to rebuild here, as they always rebuild, and luckily yesterday´s tremor didn´t cause any serious damage. Other than this, I´ve got BASTANTE meetings and trabajo this week....and I will only be here for three more weeks. Can you believe it? I sure can´t. This week will fly by with work, the next week we might head to Cuzco for Inti Raymi, and that will baisically be it. Crazy stuff, folks. See you soon back in the States.... = ( ?

ABRIL

Colombians, Peruvians, A French Girl, OH MY!

In my next life I´m coming back as a person that can sit at a computer for more than 3 hours and not get a headache. I´ve been TRYING to translate these documents, and find sweet diagrams of AIESEC international, with not much success with either, and now I can´t really think and I´m hungry.

HOWEVER--Saturday was the best AIESEC day of my life, and I just haven´t written about it because I´ve been drunk since then. So, to give an overview, FIRST we had GMM, and three random Colombians were in town, and they did SI SI MANGA as their role call, and I JUMPED UP FRONT and joined them, which was uber cool and got us all ready to GO TO THE AIRPORT, because we picked up the French Ceeder, and I got to say, BIENVENIDA; GRINGA!!!

THEN we went to a cervicheria, and had crazy amounts of toasted corn and Inka Kola and raw seafood while listening to Colombia womp on Puru´s ass in soccer, for the finals, 6-0. Sad, but definitely hilarious to be sitting at a table with 3 Colombians and about 20 Peruvians. = )

THEN I randomly chose to join the Colombians to go downtown, and we walked for about 4 hours, and believe it or not, I could actually show them around town!! THEN we went to the HOTTEST, SICKEST party of my life!!!! AHhh!! It started early at 9, and we didn´t stop the dancing UNTIL 4 30!!!!! AHHH!! And it´s true what they say about Colombians--they ARE the hottest dancers. = ) Damn, if I could live a life that played a soundtrack of merengue and salsa in the background, I´d do it in a second.... = ) = ) Gotta love South America....

Primero es la obligación que la devoción.

HEY EVERYBODY...Momo´s in CHILE!!! HOW SWEET (CHEVERE!!!)
Anyway, little upset because ABSOLUTELY NOONE met the deadline
for today. Really, now, I can´t hold your hand through the entire
process. Once we agree on what needs to be done, and agree on a date,
and I give you THREE reminders, you should be able to do the work.
Honestly. But, besides that I AM GREAT, really. Besides being woken
up at 5 00 this morning bc Yoel´s dad though I would surely feel like
running. Which, ended up happening, but slightly against my will in
the beginning. lol. Anyway, I help Olgita all the time in the
kitchen, and I´m writing down all the recipes, and she laughs at my
scribbling. She also laughs when I´m often woken up at 5 in the
morning, which is only funny for me afterwards. = ) Much later,
afterwards. Like 9. lol. BUT things are good, and as usual there is
a party tonight after all the meetings, which, might I add, will be
useless since we have nothing to discuss since no one met the
deadline. Yeah, since I swear alot, and ppl don´t know what I¨m talking about,
I´ve started keeping a ¨Useful English Expletives¨ board at my
meetings. Like, ¨Are you shitting me?¨ and ¨Where the fuck where
you?¨ and, ¨Get your shit done, motherfucker.¨ They think it´s
hilarious. In a rare moment, I even created ¨The English Phrase of
the Day¨ which went along the way of, AWOL: when someone is missing
from an important meeting for no fucking good reason. AWOL. So, good
to see I´m spreading the English language....