I know I haven't blogged in a couple of days, partially due to the fact that the internet is loco and also because I'm lazy:)
The past couple of days have been pretty quiet. I go to art class in the morning, which isn't hard but extremely boring. Then I head back to La Casa or to the supermarket or do other errands, but I usually have a couple of hours at least to hang out and each lunch. Then I go back to the University for Spanish at 3. I look forward to this class everyday because we all get along so well and the teacher is really funny. He thinks his girlfriend is Shakira and he says Jesus Christ and fuck. Today somehow we got on the topic of wedgies and he had no idea what a wedgie was even though his English is really good we thought maybe he just doesn't know the English word. So he looked it up on the internet and still really didn't understand, he's never seen anyone give another person a wedgie. People here don't do that, which I thought was really interesting. Also today we talked about gestures in America as well as here in Peru. It got quite dirty, really fast. He keeps telling us that after this course he's going to loose his job. After class we were going back to La Casa for dinner and someone asked him if he wanted to join and he said sure. So he came back with us, had dinner and got to listen to some pure American rap music (I don't think he liked it).
Breaking News!! I have my luggage, finally!! Yesterday I called Cusco and Portland through skype and found out that my luggage was in Lima (but I was told that last Friday). Then Mom called NY and Lima and LaGuardia told her that my luggage was due to arrive in Cusco on the 3pm flight. I had class a 3 so I had to wait till 6 when I got out of class to see if my bag was at the hotel. I didn't want to get my hopes up since I had been told many times that my bag would be here today or tomorrow. But when I got back to La Casa the guy at the front desk, Julio, I believe told me that my bag was in my room. YAH!! I was so happy, I hugged and kissed him (which isn't uncommon here) and almost burst into tears. This was such a relief after after almost a week of stressing. Last night I unpacked and put my stuff into the wardrobe I share with my roommate, Paola and then took a shower and shaved my underarms which were probably an inch long. I got on clean clothes and went to bed. It was so nice and then I woke up this morning and was able to have choices as to what I wanted to wear.
The staff here does your laundry for you, which is nice and all but it makes me nervous because I don't want them to steal anything. I'd rather just do it myself but unfortunately all the places in town are just like that. There's no laundromats like in the US. So I'm going to do as little as possible and maybe get some laundry detergent so I can wash some of my nicer things in the sink in my room.
I'm just so happy that my bag arrived and hopefully I've used up all my bad luck so that the rest of my time here in Peru goes smoothly!
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