Finished with my first week. I can successfully barter the kombi driver down to 40 centimos instead of 70. (That´s somewhere along the lines of paying 15 cents instead of 45 cents.) We went to Lima on Saturday for a course on soliciting taxi drivers down to a low price, then telling them nevermind. We were then instructed to find our way home. It was great. I was joking to a fellow volunteer, ¨James,¨ that the other 3 members of our group got on one of a million buses while our noses were deep in a Peru travel book. Just kidding! Only that it happened 2 minutes later. We look up and our friends are on the bus, and we are running to enter this large moving vehicle. I love entering and exiting moving vehicles. It is seriously my life. This story goes to show to be careful about when you are joking around, it could possibly happen
I had a mission in Lima to buy a converter plug to power up my dead laptop, a watch so I don´t have to ask others for the time every 3 minutes, a pirated copy of the Dark Knight because I´m the only person in America who hasn´t seen it, and AA batteries for my dead digital camera. I succeeded in every mission except for buying a watch. I bought 3 pirated DVD´s for about 3 US dollars. Halfway through the movie, it got horrible and couldn´t finish it. Guess that´s another lesson from Peru. You get what you pay for. [Or less]. No worries, though. It will only be 2 more years becfore I see the end of the movie.
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