Week 8 *I think i am not that good at numbers

A list of short stories, unimporntant details and random oberservations.

1. At Cafe Tortina *the lodest cafe in Buensoa aires, the service was really poor, but i got a glass of wine because it cost as much as a bottle of agua.
2. Last night was tired. so tired. we had woken up at 5.30 argentine time *after 4 hours sleep( to catch our plane to lima. When i am tired i am grouchy and i dont want to deal with all the hard things taht come wone with entereing into a new country, culture. Hwever last night after eating the first spicy food since guatemala, bernice and i sletp in our lovely hostil with too beds and a fan and no crazy hostelers who dont like fans. we sletp for 12 hours. and wooke to a lovely breakfast of three kind of bread, strawberry jam and mate de coco.
3. Coco reminds me of my Latina American Drugwars class that i tok with laura koblentsx.
4. Ecuador and Colombian presidetns shok hands and said i am sorry. Bush only shakes hands.
5. Things I miss: my bed, and the i dont usualy worry about weather of LA. my family, my friends and being in a culture that I dont havet o continually question and guess to figure out why the restuarants dont open until 8pm. (in buenos aires dinner time is abput 10pm, due to the time change, i was able to keep up with the late night owls argetines) and sadly, my clothes... well just having a variety of clothes.
6. It surprises me that I miss the comofrt of knowing my culture. I think it has to do with the traveling vierses living in one place.
7. I am not quick. It takes me a while to adjust. Just when i had gotten use to the uber european feel of buenos aires, i am in lima, a place that feels much more like guatemala, yet still so different. I am excited to be hear, but sad that i aonly have 4 days in lima, and 5 days in cusco/machu picchu. and then only 5 days in mexico.
8. Traveling is a test of being present focus. What is in front of you, quick decisions and enjoying whatever the moment brings.
9. i have watched quite a few movies on my trip: Daughter of the Puma, Las Cruces, Reign over me, Martian Kid, Mi Mscota es un munstro. Not to mention this new love of futbol. i enjoy watching it on tv and it is always on tv.
10. Have you ever seen those cheeseyt calenderdars with little piscture of big water falls and verses of the bible. I know understand why the makes of those caldendars make thee them, but they do no justice to the grandeure of gods cration. Iguazu national park was amazing. breathtaking, easy reminder of Gods bigness and powerfulness. God gets to look at everyday, and he created this amazing amazing waterfalls that toook qutie a lot of work for me to get to. I am slgihty jealous of this attribute of God, getting to experience his creation so up close and personally. But in front of this beatukful marvoulous amazing waterfalls, i saw an old man angry push a 20 smething lady, when she unknowingly walked in front of the camera when his whife was trying to foto graoh him. It was very crowded at this particular time of day and at that particular vantage point. It was so saddenign. And i am not jealous of God who gets to experience his creation so fallen everyday.
11. I dont like bug bites.
12. In Peru I can understand the spanish here much better.! yeah! and i think its a good thing, because they speak less english here, i belieeve.
13. I can name all the south american and central american coiuntires. Here i go. Suriname, guianan, french guiana, argetnina, brazil., colombia, venezuela, ecausore, chile and peru, uruguay and paraguay, bolivia. Costa rica, guatemala, belize, panama, nicaragua, ecaudor, honduras. In all my years of a latina merican studies major, i never learned the names, but being here, reading the nes paper and traveling over and throught hem has tuahgt me what a map never was able to.
14. I saw a tranatula the other day in hour oom in iguazu. I couldnt think of the name or what to say so i yelled at berince, get on the bed, get on the bed. through team work and squigy like broom thing we got mr. T out the door.
15. There are soooooo many people in the world. Hostels really support that fact.
16. When taking a taxi in Lima: Only take the ones with licesnce numbers on the side, taxi sign on top and registration stickers on the widnow. Dont get in. Ask how much does it cost to get tosucha nd such. He will say a number, you say no, and a lower number. If he does not agree or he looks like a shady guy wave him on and try again. It cost 6 soles to get to barranca last night for dinner and 7 to get back. i am not that good of a bargainer. but these numbers were only 1 sol more than it should have been.
17. I can charge my battery camera in peru without a converter because it can take 240v.
18. You can drink that atap water in buenos aires, but not in lima.
19. This computer is on a dely and i can not see what i am typing for like a minute so sorry for all the typos.
20.Tenga un buen dia.