My first stop on this travel was Maine. Where i was reunited with the most amazing people in the world: The nicaragua group. Rachael's grandparents have a very old hunting lodge on Georgetown island of Maine. It is RIGHT ON THE OCEAN. And it was more beautiful than i could have ever imagined. Rachael, Hannah, Sarah, Andy, and me were there for most of the time, then Edmoundson joined us for just a night and Charlie who was going to just stay with us for once day, ended up staying with us for 2, when he lost his keys in the ocean... tehehe. It was wonderful to be in the presence of these people again. The energy, and the silent understanding we have of eachother and what we say. These are some of the only people i know that i can say ANYTHING too, and i know that not only will i be judged or made fun of, but they will UNDERSTAND because they have been there, and they know what im going through. So day 1, rachael got the worst sunburn of her life because all we did all day was frolic and walk. Day 2 was 1000 piece puzzel day (never again) and day 3 we headed on back.
Then Andy and I went to my grandma's house in melrose MA to pick up some furniture and listen to her tell stories of when she went to italy but when she showed us her pictures from italy... she had no idea where there were from. Then we drove to Bow and hung out with Andy's family/cats, visited TONY!!!, i went to Evan's house, and now im in durham, I have to say, i really do Love nh, especially when compaired with NY. Yesterday i went to the beloved town of portsmouth and talked for 2.5 straight hours with estephanie. And today i'm moving into my apartment.
But of course, i still have much to write about in the Perú story. There are many bullet points that i have not covered, so here is a few in one.
What we did from the Incan trail-the return to the US:
When we came back from the Incan trail, we only had 1 full week of class left (oh man, this seems like forever ago). Not many of us went to our internships that week. I know for me, that was the week i realized i only had a short period of time left with my mother. I spent that week learning to cook some peruvian dishes, and hanging out with the people from our group. Laura and Erich brought me to their friend's house, Irma and Tim. Irma is a fantastic artist, and i bought some beautiful peruvian art from her. Spencer and Erich had their joint b-day bash at their house (there mom is a professional cook... we were all in heaven). That night Laura and I went to her house and put hairwraps in eachothers hair. It was so much fun!! We just talked and braided...so wonderful We all went to our favorite places to eat throughout the week, and on thursday night we had our going away party. All of the families had to bring some kind of food (my mom baked pie de manzana) and we had a pot luck dinner. Then Andy volunteered us to dance salsa infront of everyone for some entertainment. We did ok. My mom was actually really proud of us, she kept on saying "Ella es MI hijita! Mi hija!" That weekend was our last double project weekend, where like i said they had a HUGE party for us for all the help we did, and the very next day Andy and i went water rafting, then we had our last classes and goodbyes to almost everyone. Then a handful of us (Maria, Adam, Andy, Alyssa, Kat, and Crystal) went to our desert adventure. Nazca was our first stop, were we flew over the incredible Nazca lines is a 6 seater plane and DID NOT fall out of the sky, saw some mad awesome mummies and bones and graves in the middle of the desert, and chilled in a really differnt Plaza de Armas de Cusco. the next day was Ica, were we explored the city a tad, went on a tour of a winery where we might have been discriminated against (look at Raciscmo? post) and went to Huacachina (that was the oasis) where we walked around for 2 hours looking for a place to sleep. There was no hotel that could hold 7 people. So.... we went to a hostel that had places to camp out back, and borrowed a man's 7 person tent, put it up using nothing but electrical wire, trash, ductape and belts, and slept there. When i say slept, i mean the music from the back of the hostel where there was a party did not stop. ALL NIGHT. Thank god for earplugs. The next day we sand buggied and sand boarded for 2 whole hours. Then we made our pilgrimage out to Paracas, where we explored a beach town. The next day was out boat tour out to the Balistas Islas, islands only inhabited by sealions penguins and birds, and old buildings where they used to take bird poo and use it to make explosives. Then we just palled around paracas and ica till we took a 9pm which didn't show up till 11pm bus home.
Back in Lima, andy and i did some souvenir shopping, said buy to jennie and kelsey, and hung out with our families for 2 days before leaving for Lima.
Ok more later. i just finished the post and then blogger deleted it.... and this is why i dislike computers
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