first week down

Week one has been a success. I feel as if I have been here for about a month already though. It's hard to believe that I left calgary last weekend! It has been good, something different everyday. Today was the last day of the carnavale. Basically celebrating today consisted of a day long water fight between males and females. I got attacked at the bus stop personally but was strategically wearing shorts and my rain coat. HAHA I must've looked so ridiculous about five boys just came and poured water on me. I was also wet from walking to the bus stop, were us pedestrians got bombarded with water balloons. Friday was a typical day at the project, played some football, went and did some painting, english, and puzzles with the really little guys. We went to the market "Supermercato San Pedro" for Spanish class to learn the names of fruits and vegetaable. I am hopeless with that. For example, apples and mansanas. LIKE WHAT IS THAT? And plums are some ridiculous long word but I don't remember it. Walked around the market for about an hour, they have absolutely everything there, including full pigs right next the baby toques. The pig and meat section was a little tough to get through. Don't think I'd ever buy meat from there. They also had cheese at the market, but it's not like real cheese. I don't know what it is but it has no taste. I am going to eat an entire block of swiss when I get home. On the way home from school I hit up the movie store once again. I just love it. Saturday I woke up at 9:30 hooray for a sleep in! Had a nice breakfast, took my laundry in, walked to the market and bought some things (then ran out of money). Bumped into Phil at the market (it is really strange running into someone you know here... he called me name three times before I actually turned around) So we walked around for a couple of hours just looking at the different parts of Cusco. Ww climbed up pretty high and got some nice views of the city. We looked through the tourist area, where you HAD to keep walking otherwise you were attacked by salespeople. Headed home after we sat down in the Plaza de Armas for a rest, and then ran into FIONA! It was so weird. Went and bought a mirror with her because her apartment has no mirror. After that I ran home to drop my stuff off and change, then we met back at school and headed to a restaurant called Jack's Cafe for dinner, Basically a break from peruvian food. I had a BLT and it was probably the best thing in the world. It was fantastic. There were 10 year old boys in the cafe trying to sell paintings, and had definitely mastered their sales strategies. He came to our table and was like "Hey where you from? Canada? Capital is Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper..." AND then "Oh Australia? Capital Canberra, lots of Kangaroos, fires right now.." haha it was hilarious. I did not buy anything however. Definitely Jack's was a good place to go for a break from exotic foods. THEY HAD HUMMUS!!!! I was so excited. And French Toast!! Breakfast will have to be there sometime! Today I went up to the community I volunteer in to see what was going on in terms of celebration. I couldn't find anyone except some kids so I just played with them for a while. Came back to the new house that I moved to today in time for dinner and possibly a game of scattergories this evening :)