So after having almost all of my classes cancelled, today I played about 12 games of facebook scrabble and took what began as a very lukewarm shower which proceded to become a very cold shower. And I thought "what am I doing here?" I moved here for many reasons, all of which come under the heading of "doing something different." The modern, middle-class suburban or even urban lifestyle sucks, unless you´re doing something meaningful -slash- working toward a meaningful goal, are surrounded by people you really care about or have money to distract yourself with good food, shopping, travel, etc. Ideally all of those a, or at least the first two. In a pinch, the last usually suffices.
My first few months here were awesome, and my last few haven´t been that bad really. I don´t regret any of it, definitely. But I´ve let myself get stuck in suburbia working jobs I don´t really care about, surrounded by people who are great but for the most part aren´t close friends yet, without any real goals and without money to distract myself.
I just spent the most amazing week in Cusco with my family. It was so wonderful to see them, and so wonderful to get out of Lima. I knew it would give me a much-needed perspective, like travel usually does. I came here to travel and I´ve done almost zero up until last week.
I could be in Philly, working dumb jobs to pay rent except that here I can´t afford lattes. That´s simplying too much, I know, but I guess what I´m saying is that as long as I´m "roughing it", I mind as well be traveling. I´d love to go today! right now! but there´s like 50 reasons to wait until the end of September. So maybe I can travel around Peru, there´s still tons of things I want to see, and then maybe visit Linda in Nicaragua. So that´s my plan! I got it in the shower. Maybe I should take more.