Home, sweet home

1h from Miraflores to the Lima airport, 5h to Sao Paolo, 10h at the airport, 11h to Rome, 3h at the airport, 3h to Warsaw, lovely time at Ola's, 3,5h to Katowice, 2h at the bus station, 2h to Skoczów and I'm finally at home.

Time to check all pictures and write some stories from the last month ;) Coming soon :)

wedding time

It's hard to believe, I remember one of the first talk with my host family about the wedding in July. At that time it seemed so far away. and it's gone already...

but about the wedding

It's quite different than in Poland. The ceremony in the church started at 5pm, normal catholic ceremony, no surprises there, except the fact that out of around 600 invited on the mess were around 60. After that there was a long photo session with the newly-weds. Instead of wish them all the best guests were just taking photos with them.

Hungry like hell we moved to the party place. Huge hall full of tables, all in white and violet. Table for 10 people with a cake and bottle of wine (where is vodka?), nice. For food we had to wait a little bit more. The young couple arrived after more or less 1h, then someone was reading long text to make a marriage legal, the first "salut!" (without breaking glasses and cleaning) and the first dance. It was interesting, because the newly-weds were dancing with each other only a little bit and then for the commend change of partners - parents, best men, brothers and all this important people in one dance. Quite comfortable for the young couple :P

After that the food finally arrived - pachamanca. Dancefloor was getting more and more full, but nobody was asking to dance me and Karin! I don't have any idea what was wrong. More and more people were coming, around midnight almost all places were taken. Finally our neighbour also arrived, so dancing time began.

There was nothing like polish "oczepiny". Only throwing the bouquet, nothing more. I was the lucky one who didn't catch it.

Summary:

Making new friends, dancing, making people jealous, avoiding bride's father, hunting for a cookies (not so easy!), drinking wine and in general having fun. Nice night :)

phone story

when I've finally remembered my number! damn it!

One of the reason why I love working in the libery is that there is quite comfortable sofa and almost no people, so you can have a nap. Unfortunatelly this "almost" is important.

After one of this nap my phone disappeard, just like that. What is even funnier it disappeared without battery, which were been charging at that time (yes, I have to {hmm "had to"} charge a battery out of the phone).

So I've been without a contact with world, but still I had a "polish phone" without the SIM card. However during the wedding a battery from this phone got lost from my room. No phone, just a battery. Now I don't even have an alarm clock...

shopping

percivers...


so I've known about the wedding for more than 4 months, but of course I decide to buy a new dress one day before the party. it shouldn't have been a hard task, yes? hmm it was.

First of all almost all dresses have some weird flounces, frills, flowers or laces! Segundo almost all are so short. I know that I'm higher than avarage peruvian girl, but they are short even for them. The last thing, why the hell there is only one size?! There is only "S", because according the sellers it means "standard"...

life of pauper...

I'm totally fed up with being poor. Seriously, it's so annoing. I can't meet with friends, I can't go to my dream trip, I can't buy credits for my phone, I can't even buy a chocolate! How is it possible to live without a chocolate?

at least I'm sure now that after Peru I have to find a job, definitely. I do need money.
to buy a chocolate, of course, nothing connected with travelling 

hard work

I love the kids in the orphanage, I totally love them, but I'm just not able to take care of them all day long! I need some tasks, normal tasks. Even cleaning sometimes is better.

Actually there is quite a lot of things which volunteers can do to really help, not just to exactly the same work like tutors, becouse it doesn't have any sense. But when the person responsible for volunteers is interested oonly in paper work and cannot communicate with people (even in spanish!) situation is a bit complicated.

Only way is that volunteers come up with ideas.

So now I'm designing my first website :) The old orphanage's website is really old and ugly. The best part of the new task (execpt the fact that I finally have a task, a project!) is that I can work from home, there is no internet at work :)

It's how we roll :)

Pampas, Rupac, flies and cold

OK OK, I know that I'm late, but...

ok, first story is about the trip to Rupac, which was one month ago :)

To reach Rupac (3400m) first we had to stay over in the village without people - Pampas. Old houses without floor, but with good doors, empty school, deserted "main square" and a close church. A sky full of stars, the scenery perfect for the horror movie, especially that we arrived there at 1am.

After a quick research we decided to stay in the old school, the wood floor seemed quite stable and light and even more special atmosphere were given by candles. Unfortunately all stories about ghosts, demons, devils and all other creatures which can show up just in that moment where destroyed by four engineering brains, so the night was warm and calm.

Real hiking started the following day. Everything was perfect except one thing - huge flies everywhere. But on the other hand it was a perfect motivation to go up and up - it was just impossible to stop and rest. Fortunately our camp was flies-free :)

Ruins on Rupac were really impressive. Pre-Incas building, but some of them in better conditions than the ones in Pampas. Always unfailing Pamela told us legends and stories and explained everything.

Evening, a bonfire, playing "the mafia", looking for the lucky star and cold like hell (hmm not sure it there is cold in hell, but whatever). Almost perfect night, but... OF COURSE there is a but! I dislocated the finger. How? no idea - during sleep, even if it sounds ridiculous. (not so bad at the end - I got 7 days free for that :D)

Sleepy morning, beautiful sunrise and time to come back. The best moment was in the waterfall. Even freezing "shower" was perfect after 3 days without water ;)

BALANCE
around 50 bites, 10 bruises, a sunburn and a dislocated finger vs. amazing views, pre-Incas ruins, a conder, lovely waterfall and perfect people
Clearly fantastic weekend