sometimes I miss America...

47 days until I come home, which is 6 and a half weeks.. which is going to fly by. Sometimes I feel guilty I'm not itching to travel more, I'm so bad at planning. But then sometimes I think it's fine, because I like my routine here and I have seen a lot already and I'm not racing to see everything. So before I come home I'll squeeze in Iquitos, a beach trip and I'd like to go to Lunahuana, maybe this weekend, but I'm kinda slacking on planning and making reservations...

So I left school after my first class today because I'm feeling kind of tired and depressed because today I MISS AMERICA.. and I just couldn't sit around at the university wasting 3 hours before a class I don't care about just to wait to hunt a combi down during rush hour.. I'm calling it a skip for mental health.

AND IT PAID OFF!!!!! I got on a combi with ease this afternoon, sat next to a friendly old man who kept talking to me and smiling and laughing which boosted my mood. I get to Larcomar (where I came to do some work).. I order a coffee and the man in line behind me starts talking to me. Turns out he's from Miami, here on business, but he also has family in Lima. He speaks 5 languages and offered to buy me coffee. Since I'd already had one, I declined. We talked for like an hour about how important it is to learn languages and how it opens doors and how we've both backpacked Europe and what I'm doing with my life and what he does etc. Anyways he offered to take me to this nice restaurant on the ocean here (you may have seen it in my facebook albums)... It's not a creepy situation, I promise.. although I don't think I'm going to go. Then he told me he had to go buy saldo (money for your cell phone)... he asked if I have saldo and coincidentally I don't. He ended up putting 20 soles on my cell for me... coooool. I love random encounters with random people who enjoy seeing the world and learning languages as much as I do.

So yeah, good day.

other than I reallyyyyyyyy miss America today.