Muggings & falafal!

As of tomorrow, I officially only have one more week of TEFL! It absolutely flew by. This week has gotten a little crazy with all the work, but it will be worth it in the end when I can send out my actual certificate with my CV (resume) and get myself a job! Love it!

Let's see, last time I posted was about my first Cusco nightlife experience. Naturally that turned into us going out every night, or at least staying in with a few beers and some card games. Friday night was another night on the town bar-hopping. I naturally was one of the last ones out at the bar and ended up waking home with my housemate around 3am and...dun dun dun...I got mugged! Yes, mugged. Stumbling up the street, a little Peruvian man jumped out of his car, snatched my purse off my shoulders, hopped back in the car and drove away! Needless to say I was a little shaken up, but thank God I was with the one housemate who is a guy! I can only imagine what would've happened if I had been alone or with another girl. But I got home safe, and they only got my debit card & chapstick...no money. So HA!
Saturday I woke up with a University of Delaware hangover and spent most of the day recovering on the couch with my housemates watching Lost on DVD. That turned into drinking beers and more sitting on the couch all night. How could I forget! I went to a Peruvian soccer game!

Sunday was homework day.
Monday I taught a lesson on vocabulary and did really well :-) We ended up going out again that night because we knew this week would be a tough one. My housemates Maggie, Thorin & I ended up staying out a littttle later than planned and ended up at this really funky bar called Mama Africa

Housemate got his face painted! haaa

Tuesday I was exhausted, but 3 of my housemates, Caroline, Michael, and Thor wanted to go on a hike so I couldn't resist. We headed up to Cristo Blanco (again) and even though it started raining the boys pushed us on. An adorable psychotic little pitbull mix led us the whole way which was obviously the highlite for me. The city was beautiful at night so I was really glad we decided to keep going. On the walk down we ended up finding a little ledge overlooking a school and the whole city and sitting there shooting the shit with a little vodka. I'm absolutely loving hanging out with people from other countries or even other parts of the US and getting to know them. I feel like I've lived such a sheltered life on the East Coast and I'm finally opening up my mind to the rest of the world. It's awesome.

Jesus

Caroline & I

Thorin & Michael

Our guide dog :-)

This week I had to observe 3 one hour classes, teach 2 mini lessons, and write a 3-5 page paper plus 3 lesson plans...and almost all of it is due tomorrow! Lots and lots of work but after 4 years of partying too hard I've finally figured out the perfect balance of work & fun. Hence why I've been in front of the computer for 8 hours writing, and writing, and lesson planning, and writing some more. BOO.

Thank God tomorrow is the weekend! We're either going white water rafting or bungee jumping on Saturday. I'm pretty pumped. We're also booking our trip to Machu Picchu tomorrow! There's 10 of us from my TEFL class going together which is going to be absolutely amazing. We have such a fun, funny group of people. We're not doing the Inka Trail, I'm saving that for when Ben comes. We're doing an alternative route called Salkantay. Horses carry our stuff the whole way and we have a guide and a few cooks. We'll be sleeping in tents for 3 of the nights and a hostel on the 4th. We get to go in some hot springs and see some other cool stuff along the way. We scheduled it for Dec 19th-23rd, so it's my Christmas present to myself! Afterwards most of us are going to stay in Cusco through the holidays so we'll celebrate together in our own little Peruvian way!

Off to get some sleep before my lesson tomorrow. Love & miss everyone!