Fav City Del World

I love Cusco, I love the dirty streets, I love the people bothering me to get a massage, I love how I’m getting sun burns in winter, I love my watch tan, I love my students, I love the little snack stands every ten feet, I love their non sweet hot chocolate, I love all the stairs, I love how much walking I’m doing, but most of all I love the people.
I have officially befriended the entire waitress staff at The Crown, a bar in the Plaza de Armas looking out towards the Cathedral. They are amazing people, and they have been quite helpful in my romantic endeavors as well. I am probably going to be getting a cell phone for the month of August. I guess the phone doesn’t cost much and I can do prepaid. I am really tired of having to watching 3 blocks to find someone who is wearing a neon vest who rents out cell phones for as I can make a phones call. Not to mention, none of my Peruamigos have any way of calling me. I’ll have to do some research but hopefully I can get a phone; it’ll make my life so much easier.
So, last night I had the craziest encounter. I was walking home, down Av. Del Sol, and I ran into Estella Rodriqeuz, a kinder teacher from Frank Paul. I worked in her class during my first year of AmeriCorps. Here she is, just walking around my favorite city in the world. She tells me it was her last night in town and then invites me out to dinner, a fancy dinner…her treat. Of course I accepted, so I went to dinner with her and her two friends, they combined ages hovers just around 200 years old. I put on my best and most charming face for talking to grown ups and had a great dinner. Then I showed them how to get to their hotel, because they don’t know the city that well and Estella gives me S/. 50! Hot damn! I had a couple drinks with some friends and I paid, it was a blast. Yesterday has probably been one of my big highlights so far. Oh, I almost forgot, Estella gave me her tourist pass to all of the ruins. Now I can go to the ruins near Cusco and not have to pay a dime. I wasn’t going to go to any but now I can, I’m going to try to hit up three of them, Tambomachay, Q’enqo, and Sacsaywaman.