Everyone,
I'm sorry that I have neglected to update this blog sooooooo many times. Now that I am chillin in Peru I can spend a little more time on it. What happened is that I realized that I didn't want to spend my time in Malaysia on the business end of this computer, so I just didn't do it...
However, Malaysia was a good time. I did, however, write in a kitten notebook all the memories and things that I did, and I tried to do so at least once a day. It's quite a treasure.
Now that I've a reliable internet connection and things like that, I'm going to try to update more often.
Peru is a lot like Malaysia, except there are little subtle differences. Surprisingly there is a very pronounced Asian influence here, in fact, they're teaching us in school that the Japanese discovered Peru LONG before Christopher Columbus, which I believe is pretty much true.
The public transportation is "Micro's" which is a van that seats 20 with 45 people in it. Lots of fun.
90% of the robberies that happen do so without any force or weapons involved (i.e. pick-pocketing) but there are A LOT of robberies.
There's 10,000 police officers and security personnel that work in Lima. There's pretty much a police officer every 2 blocks 24 hours a day. This makes you feel very safe but you just have to be smart and stay away from the bad parts. Lima has bad parts just like Kansas City has a bad part and Omaha is bad.
So when you go anywhere, you simply maintain an elevated level of alertness, and pretend like you know what you're doing and no one messes with you for the most part.
Americans are targets, but they try to target the stupid drunk Americans that yell loudly in American and don't speak Spanish. Thats pretty much the same everywhere.
I'm in school these next two weeks from 9-4. It's awful. Then start the real classes, which is supposed to be better.
Class on Saturday is completely plausible and happens without anyone blinking an eye. 6 day work week.
The dollar's strong. I live on about $50 a week, and quite comfortably. But siempre hay que presupuestar.
I miss Skunk, of course.
One of the main foods here in Lima is Chifa, which is chinese food, Peru style. The food isn't spicy, but it's very rich in different spices (MSG in the case of Chifa).
And that's all. I'll keep you guys updated, and put pictures up as well.
However, there is a picture that I HAVE to post of Skunk. It's pretty damn funny.
Kevin
