After my birthday, this was a fairly uneventful week. I mostly just worked on my Spanish and bought my plane ticket to Peru (a much more complicated process than it may sound like).
On Saturday, Kim and I went to Parque Nacional Cajas and it was amazing. I´m uploading pictures right now, but I´m not sure that they really do it justice. It was quite possibly the most impressive place I´ve ever been. First, we walked in the lower cloud forest area, which was similar to La Hesperia. The hike in the paramo was what really got me. We hiked around several lagunas and through a forest of quinua trees at an altitude of 4000 m, making it one the highest altitude forests in the world (according to our guide). The vegetations was incredible and even though it rained the whole time, mist seemed to suit the place better than sun would have. The only drawback was that we went with a group and some of the people were wearing totally inappropriate shoes and so they were slipping all over the place and we had to go very slowly. I didn´t mind too much though because it gave me more time to look around.
That night, Kim and I went out dancing with one of the teachers from the school at a place with a live salsa band. My salsa isn´t very good, but we had a lot of fun.
On Sunday I was going to go to some markets in smaller towns nearby, but I was exhausted from hiking and dancing. I ended up going to with Katy and Angelica to Katy´s sister´s ´country house´ (it´s really just a suburb of small cabins in the hills above the city) for a realxing lunch. Afterwards we made milcocha, which is like taffy. I still don´t talk very much when I´m with them, but it´s getting less awkward.
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- Kate
- "Don't brood too much on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is mediaeval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them." -Howards End, E.M. Forster
3 comments:
Peru!!!!!!!
Hola Kateee! ¿Como estas? Estoy bien. ok, this is sad, after 6 years, that's all i can eek out! hahaha. hope yours is getting better!! xoxox
Ahhh you must embrace the awkward! it transcends language! (I also have difficulty communicating in english, so I find awkward hand gestures and over-expressive eyebrow movements to be particularly effective... also useful for Groucho impressions)
I miss you! can you post pictures? or have you and I missed the flickr link?
Can't wait to hear about WahWOOFing!
and p.s. anybody else notice that miz sigler titled her peru-dedicated blog in french? Or is that clever literary irony... c'mon now kate, keep it simple for us non-Oberlin folks.
yay Kate!
-Kat
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