Friday, April 11, 2014

Should I stay or should I go now?

So my past few days have gone something like this:

I wake up on my bench in the hall after an uncomfortable night sleep and I think, "Ugggh this is ridiculous, I need leave NOW."  And then I spend all day with everyone here, go for a run on the beach, speak a lot of Spanish, try to pronounce a few Polish words, play with the kids, eat some good food and think, "Life is pretty nice here."  And then I go to bed and the cycle repeats.  So I'm not planning my departure yet, but I might bump it up a few days partly because of the living situation here and partly just to give me more time to travel.  We shall see.

Today was my day to cook, and as I could have guessed the oven doesn't work, so baked ziti wasn't an option.  Instead I made rice with ground beef and vegetables for lunch, and lentil salad with mashed potatoes for dinner.  Magdalena isn't back yet, so I think we will get to cook again tomorrow!  It's nice actually cooking for a lot of people because I'm willing to spend more time to make better things.  In San Ignacio when I was just cooking for myself I was pretty lazy and uncreative with what I made.

My daily work routine is pretty nice now.  I open the shop at 9am and work until 11am, and then after the kids come home and we eat lunch I play with them for 2 hours.  The weather here is amazing - short sleeves with either shorts or long pants is usually fine all day, low humidity, beautiful sunsets.  I looked on couchsurfing for locals to meet, and one girl responded to my message and we might meet up this weekend.  I looked in the Lonely Planet guide and there are two museums that seem interesting, so I'll try to get to them sometime next week maybe.  One has a lot of Incan mummies.

Not much else to report on, so I will finish with a quick list of the people here so I can reference them in future posts and not have to explain who they are:
Me!!
Magdalena - the mom and owner of the printing/internet business
Eusebio - the dad
Jeremias - the older son (12)
Jordan - the younger son (8)
Cesar - a Peruvian guy who works/lives here
Przemek - a Polish guy who is volunteering here
NO PETS :)

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