the people on the bus

I've been walking around with my ipod on recently. I've always thought that was kind lame when people do that, like they can't be bothered to fully participate in the drudgery of real life, like waiting in line and walking down the street. But I do it now, only sometimes. I actually almost got hit by a car today and missed a bus that I think may have been my bus because I had it on. Oh well.
This post is less new things about Peru than new things about me. For instance, now I like juice. Everywhere you go, you can get fresh juice. All kinds of juice, from fruits you never knew existed.
I think my espanol teacher is bored with my class. The korean girl in the class is smart but gets really slow when we learn new things. And it's a class, so we always learn new things. And the hungarian boy misses class and comes late so she kind of hates him. I don't think she hates me, but I'm not such a speedy learner either. Nothing is intuitive, you just have to memorize things. I prefer more relative subjects, where anything that sounds good, is good. Like philosophy. Anyway. On the bus, this boy gave me his seat! Rush hour in Lima is from 5pm to like 10pm or something. After class gets out (5:30) I bum around until rush hour dies down, which it doesn't really ever do. It's bumper to bumper. You can be waiting for your bus, looking at the car in front of you and it will not move an inch for 10 minutes. Swear to G-d. So after waiting for a bus with seats available, I got on this really full bus and was like ok whatever. I had to stand up. But then about 65 more people got on and we had only moved about 2 blocks and we weren't moving at all and I couldn't handle it so I pushed through everyone and got off. The guy tried to get me to pay but I was like "dos cuadros!" I don't even really know what that means but I just walked away. I'm not paying you anything, dude. Then I got on a big bus, the good bus. There were still no seats, but it wasn't too crowded. I walked to the middle of the bus and kind of made eye contact with this guy, this kid really, in shorts listening to his ipod too and he looked at me and just got up and gave me his seat. We both had headphones on and I just sort of smiled. I was in shock. It made me smile for like 10 minutes. He spoke english too. I asked if he wanted me to hold his bag because he had to stand up now. And for some reason I spoke to him in english and he answered. I should have talked to him but I just put my headphones back on.