Fate, Friends, and French Toast...well maybe not French Toast

Hello everybody! I am writing to you from my first full day in Cusco. I woke up in Cusco, I ate breakfast in Cusco and today I visit my volunteer site and start Spanish lessions. I am not quite sure what my site is, school, orphanage, circus training facility, but I know that it will be in the realm of childcare. I also got placed in advanced Spanish. I´m defiantly nervous about it. I feel the most comfertable in conversation but when it comes to the names of all of the verb forms and tenses then I´m as lost as a ferret jumping over the moon...I just don´t know how. It´s only for a week and there are tutors available.

I am living in a family home/hostel near the area wher I lived with my family before, near the Marcado Confranternidad. It is a nice 20 minute walk to Maximo Nivel, the organization I work with, office and another 3 minutes to the Plaza de Armas, Cusco´s main center. I have a roommate, Christopher, from Canada for three weeks and then he leaves. At that point I would like to see if they could place me in a more central housing arangment. Christopher has never been here before, and I´ve been taking him around to some of the places I knew before. We had lunch at Antojitos which gives you mucho food for under 3 dollars. I had a very pleasant suprise on our walk yesterday when, on my way to see if my old waitress friends Hannah and Rossmery still worked at Inka Fe, I practicially walked into Rossmery working at a resteraunt in the Plaza de Armas. I had pipe dreams about running into her, but I didn´t really expect it to happen. Well, I got her number and it looks like I will get to actually hang out with Peruvians. I´m super excited. Now, with my better Spanish, I´ll be able to communicate much better and our relationship won´t be based soley on my apperance.

Random factoid: The resteraunt 3x2, on of my favorties, seems to have closed...just kidding, I saw it was open today....my b

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