Goodbye Arequipa!

Today is our last day in Arequipa.

I´m really going to miss it here, we´ve been here for 2 weeks.

I think everyone is starting to feel at home here, I suppose that´s a good reason to move on to... CUSCO!

Last night was fun.. well more funny.

Blake found us a `cool, hip place to go dancing´.

Hemm well I guess cool and hip people can be over 35....

Granted, we only stayed till 11:30, but it was still mostly old people when we left.

After we all went out to get juice(pineapple, banana), and ended up staying out pretty late.
All in all good night.





The next morning was a coffee must day, so Benji, Jonah, and I met up with Julie at the coffee shop and went over to the big market again.
I had my first fresh fig! (thanks Julie)

I also got to see cute puppies! Sadly they live mostly in a bag with other pups till they are adopted by someone :(



Jalen and I finished packing (about an hour ago), and left Martha our homestay mama.
I´m pretty sure I´m bag has gained about 8 pounds over the last 6 weeks.

Today I also found some mixed greens, it felt SO great to eat fresh veggies! Now my only hope is that I don´t need any of the imodium I´ve been passing out, a few people have `rumbles in the jungle´or ´super sonic diarrhea´, as we´ve been calling it.

I´m pretty dummed I still can´t post pictures! The internet cafe I´m at right now is awful.... they removed all of the usb ports, and the first computer I was on crashed twice.

Maybe Cusco will be better! (we get on our 10 hour night bus at 8:30 tonight)

Wow it´s March....

I´m still in Arequipa. Exept this week Jalen and I are staying with Martha!
She´s our homestay Mama, and she makes us wonderful (mostly)vegan food!
She also rents rooms in her house out... So if you ever want to go to Arequipa, Peru... You should call her!

Really cool things about Arequipa, Peru:
Everything is really cheap!
The people are easier to understand than Chileans.
The weater is wonderful.
It´s surrounded by mountains.
And they have chocolate.

Some not so cool things about Arequipa:
THEY DON´T HAVE WARM SHOWERS!
And that´s pretty much it.

Today Josie, Quinn, Wyatt, Kina, and I went to a neat and authentic market place with our Spanish teacher, they had some awesome stuff there!
The main reason we went was so that everyone who wanted could get jugo de rana (or frog juice). Yup it´s just what it sounds like.
A woman takes 2 frogs, knocks them out, peals them, boils them, puts them in a blender with milk, honey, quinoa, maca powder, and a few other grains, then she pours the juice through a strainer to get the bones and chunks out, andddd Bon Appetite!
The Market also had LOTS of meat, I think the worst was the bucket of cow heads....
But all in all I{m glad they don{t let anything go to waste... Or turn it in to a hotdog...
(Now for my homework I have to write all that in Spanish... Yikes)

Side note: If you have an Ipod touch, 3 dollars, and time to kill
you should get FIELD RUNNERS! (app)
Moving on....
I{ll have pictures soon... I hope, Friday at the latest!