Weekends go fast especially if you are aware of them. Last six months we did not know what day of the week it is but by now we do know again how to appreciate weekends. This time we planned to go out of Cusco but did not manage to fulfill our plan. Finally though we managed to visit the art district of Cusco. We have also been to a football game of Primera División Peruana - between the local Cienciano and one of the teams - Universitario. Surprise, surprise after the first half Cusco team was loosing...during the second half though the guests could not run anymore and in the end lost...It was Rita's first visit to live football and at first she did not like the wild crowd. After some time though managed to find her favourite sector with live trumpet music...All in all the spectators were less lively than I would expect from Latino's :))) We are all cursed by stereotyping - aren't we? We went to the stadium with lots of kids from a different NGO and all enjoyed ourselves as long as there was sun - no sun means that you freeze as I have mentioned a couple of time before.
Otherwise our week has started very nicely - we have new volunteers - one American girl speaking Czech so I can practice my Polish...and of course our cook is here so finally we have food, we do not do shopping and general feeling of cleanliness creeps slowly in...We even started renovating the bathroom but got stuck on the point of how to put plaster on adobe - the walls of our bathroom are basically earth structures - same as used thousands of years ago by all sorts of local tribes. We might have a solution but we are still double checking - nobody dared to strip the walls of left over paint as to have the adobe stick out completely. Rita was of the opinion that then the whole structure will collapse. It is a bit like a crush course in home renovation.
The best thing however is that we are going to travel again - not yet but soon and to new places for us!!!
By the way my brain still refuses to process Spanish in a way that anything sensible would come out of my mouth. Russian and German dominate the field and Spanish cannot find its place in my brain - scary.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Cienciano Cusco
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I don't know if you remember me from our trip to Prague for new years 2000/2001, but I found your blog from LinkedIn. I'm a friend of Gosia and Jakub and was living w Warszawie in 2000.
Pretty cool that you're doing the trip that my wife and I just did. We started in Buenos Aires and then spent a month in Peru. We took some Spanish classes at Excel in Cusco (see the Lonely Planet) and did a homestay with a great family. We then struck out on the Gringo Trail. We wrapped up our trip by going back to Argentina to visit Iguazu Falls and then got pickpocketed on my last day in Buenos Aires. :( Be careful -- they're quick.
I'll be checking out your blog later. Enjoy your trip.
Hi Micheal,
sure I do remember you...great to hear from you...we almost made it to Australia but then we decided to do it next time - one needs at least 6 months to do it the proper way...by the way we almost got pickpocketed in Buenos Aires as well - they opened our backpack but fortunately we did not have anything in it. We will be in Cusco for some time but my bro - remember Greg? - is coming in around a month and a half so we will meet him in Brazil :)))
take care. T&R
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