Ingetur Peru

Well this will be where you can read about my fashinating trip to Latin America 2006!

I was off to a rough start and just before leaving I was asking myself why the heck I was doing this!!!

Things were just not turning out as I had hoped. The trip got more and more delayed which caused some stress... especially since I was living at other peoples houses. I wanted to stay out of the way but at the same time be to hands. And then there was my work that needed to get done.

Finally I got a departure date! I was do fly the 3rd of March. So I started running around doing all that last minute stuff one always has to do. But the products I needed to buy were sold out, I couldn´t get a hold of the people I was supposed to and when I finally got a hold of someone I didn´t get the answers I needed, and... well... then there´s the fact that I´m not perfect :-) In all this chaos I made a whole bunch of mistakes and didn´t get some of my work done the way I should have.

Looking back at it doesn´t seem like too much of a problem, but I got quite stressed in the end.. and then... three days before I left I found out that the funding for Chile might not go through!!!!! For a technicality that easily could have been fixed if I would have just known in time. But what to do... I couldn´t get a hold of the people to fix it... so I decided to just get to Lima and fix the things from here.... easier said than done! The flight got more and more delayed due to fierce snowfall in Holland (where I had my transit flight). Finally we arrived in Amsterdam but the flight to Lima was cancelled.

So I had a day in Amsterdam. Great! Or not. I was dressed for the Peruvian summer and of course Holland was experiencing one of their coldest winters ever. But I did some tourism anyways. Mostly to get away from the hostel where I was staying, a crowded and smelly place with the beds in tight rows. I had to lay next to a couple of spanish young men who had come to Amsterdam to enjoy all of the legalleties. They weren´t expecting that I could understand spanish and to be quite honest, I would have rather not. But I wasn´t in the mood to strike a conversation with any of them so I pretended to sleep. Besides from them having the munchies every two seconds they seemed to have other needs to satisfy... So when my alarm whent off early in the morning I let it ring... and ring... and ring... revenge CAN be sweet!!!


Anyhow, the next day I caught my flight and thank god I had already ordered a taxi to pick me up at the airport in Lima. The agency is suitibly enough called Ingetur Peru which in swedish translates to No Luck Peru. It was overpriced but it was worth it given the circumstances. And the next morning when I ate my first mango all was forgiven and after my first banana all was forgotten.

My hotel is in the centre of Lima, where I have a small room on the top floor overlooking the city. The cockroaches are small enough but there are some cute cats that live here and two turtles. And a lot backpackers. Of course I make way too many friends right a away so we hang out instead of me working 12 hours a day as I had planned. But it´s way too hot to work all day!!! And who do I befriend the most? Of course the most doped out, half-freaky but oh so fun latinos. But I´m the "mami", the calm one with her feet on the ground keeping track of everybody. At least I´m practising my spanish and actually I feel surprisingly fluent already. Good thing I decided to come a few days earlier.

You will be able to see the pictures soon.
So long for now!