6.8.08

I Win, and I need to share why

I am about to live in the most spectacularly and serenely beautiful place, you have ever in your wildest dreams imagined.  Im not talking like, Niagara falls pretty, where its drive up see the sight, and leave.  Im talking, you can't escape it, it takes 4 taxi's and 6 beautiful but painfully packed into the car with Peruvian hours, overlooking cliffs, and thinking your gonna die before you get here beautiful.  Im talking 3000 meters up, and looking off a cliff at all the other mountain that are also 3000 meters up beautiful.  Im talking that... in all directions.  Im talking, horses and pigs and dogs and people, just living here in peace.  I'm talking the moon is closer than youve ever seen it, and the stars are brighter than the streetlights beautiful.  Besides the indescribable physical beauty of my location, a sentiment which I'm sure I am right now sharing with other volunteers, because I'm pretty sure Peru's top I dunno, 2, for supplying volunteers with stunning sites, I win for other reasons.  Lets just start with where I'm sitting right now.  I'm sitting in my house.  That's right, I have high speed internet in my house.  My families got a stove that looks a lot like your stove.  And, oh my god, how could I almost forget, hot water.  I am laughing, LAUGHING, thinking about this.  AND MY TOILET FLUSHES FOR REAL!!!!  My situation is about to get BETTER, from training, infrastructurely speaking.  Ok onto the host family, seem nice, I dunno, too early to tell.  Oh I win again, my family has a billiard table, a real billiard table, and my local church has an ORGAN.  My room, which is on the second floor,   has its own balcony, overlooking the most beautiful view ever, so I guess I win with that too.  What else?  The town received me today, I had to give a speech.  Its definitely smaller than 2500, there's maybe 800 people in this town, I'm ok with it.  Ill write more later, I just found I have the internet in my house and decided to go crazy.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats on winning. I also won today, a few hundred at Mohegan at the Roulette tables. holler. anyway i leave for Ithaca in two weeks. make sure to pass my email/phone number onto jake. my new cornell email address is mfr54@cornell.edu so make sure he has that in case he needs anything. I'd like to know where he's living and maybe get his info too in case there's anything i think he should know about. enjoy the hot water bro.

Ruby...

miss liza said...

congrats, baby. i'm relieved!

Claire said...

haha sorry i wasn't there when you shot an IM from me, i'm guessing where you were sitting was in your house!!! can't wait to see it for myself! btw, i was at a bar named "black bear" tonight. missing you much, i'm sorry i lied last time i posted, i will actually write you an email momentarily.
bear.

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