Cusco: Semana 2

On Monday, a new student arrived so I was not the only one anymore! Yay. His name is Sebastian and he is from France but lives in Miami. The first day he wanted to go find a gym to go to for the week which was quite weird to me, but it made me motivated to sign up too. So Marisol and I went to the gym later that day and at night we went out to the clubs to show Sebastian around but he went home a little early. Marisol is good friends with the owner now so she somehow managed to get me a tshirt that says Mama Africa...our favorite night club. Oh and earlier that day, I went to the post office to see if any of my birthday packages had arrived yet but i had to go to the back and meet my post man. Turns out he dropped it off next door because we have the same address, so we walked together for 20 minutes to the other location and i am now best friends with the post man. I got my mail just fine!

Tuesday was the big day. The day to eat cuy. Which is guinea pig. The special meat of all of Peru. We went to the first restaurant and had to walk up a million stairs to findout that it was closed. So then, we went to another restaurant. We ordered the cuy and recieved it with head and nails and all. It was fried and actually decently good but with every bite, I thought I am eating guinea pig and couldnt really enjoy it. I am glad I tried it but have no desire to eat it ever again. We all watched movies at Marisol´s that night. Wednesday we went to my first futbol game in south america! We got there and bought our tickets on the street for about $5 and entered. I bought a sandwitch and ice cream and coke all for about $2. What a difference between this and a sporting event in the states! I think Sebastian bought every single thing that they sold and gave what he didnt like to Ygor (the activities coordinator). After that I was supposed to go to the birthday part of the grandma of my family but there was confusion and I didn´t end up going. But I found the channel that has gossip girl!!! So I was happy and am now caught up with one of my shows. Thursday we went horse back riding but this time it was much cheaper and much scarier. We stopped off at different Inka places to see. During my last ride back to the stable, the horse wanted to kill me. ALl the other horses started to gallop a little bit and mine did too which was fine until he went into the trees where branches were at my stomach level and I was trying to pull the reigns to make him stop at the same time dodging the branches. I almost had a heartattack but i survived. I was more scared than need be but what´s new. We went to dinner at one of the aunts house that night and she made the best drink ever. It was champagne blended with ice and canned peaches. It was way better than a mimosa and I didn´t know that was possible! Friday we worked out and then bought food for dinner and supplies for me to make chocolate chip cookies. I had been craving them for far too long so it was time. It was quite an adventure finding the supplies as well as making them without my wonderful mixer and all by hand. The batter was just as good as always but when i went to put them in the oven, they all spread together and were so so crispy. The altitude here is way too high and didnt work. But they were good enough. Everyone from school came over that night after dinner and we had a pre party at the house and then went to Mama Africa. I celebrated my birthday at midnight and we danced the night away. Ygor was too drunk and dissapeared after 15 minutes. None of us have phones though, so we couldnt really figure out what happened til later. Saturday, my birthday, wasn´t exactly how I had hoped and dreamed. I woke up to no one in the house and ate breakfast alone. I wanted to wait for my family to call but didn´t want to be alone so i went to Marisols and we just watched movies all day. We had a interesting peruvian dinner and the girl and son I live with bought me my favorite chocolate that I buy everyday which was really nice. They bought me a whole box! yum but badd. for me. And the aunt gave me a jewlery set from the company she works for. Its kind of like an avon company. We went out that night but I just wasnt really feeling it and wanted to be with my friends and family. Also, not having a phone to recieve calls really put a damper on it:( Oh well, better luck next year. Sunday, i did much of the same...relaxing day and at the end we went to a restaurant that has burritos and I got one and surprise surprise it still didnt fulfill my burrito craving.