June 11th

The last few days have been kind of interesting. Tuesday I went an got my ISIC card which will hopefully help me out in my costs in Cusco and elsewhere. 

This is an international student card that people can use while traveling to get discounts and other benefits on trips as well as many other things. I'll use it for my bus trip to Cusco and the company I book through. I am hoping on doing the Salkantay trek, most selected option besides the Inca trail. One has to book the Inca trail months in advance since it is high season for tourists now. 

I have been researching quite a bit for this trek in order to find the one that has the most to offer for the most affordable price which I will find! I'll post some links in the next few days with what I find. :)

I went out with my friend Gerardo, from Colombia, that was staying in my hostal. He and I walked up to a restaurant that was by a look out of the coast. After dinner we went and watched the last X-men movie. Gerardo left on Wednesday to head back home and he gave me a Colombia jersey for the World Cup, crazy futbol tournament in South America right now!! That was so sweet of him to do that. I'll wear it again when they play. 

I spent the day with another girl that I met in the hostal and we got an ISIC card for her and swam in the ocean. Afterwards we had lunch at La Bodega Verde, best little cafe in Barranco with best Lucuma shakes. 

Anni met up with her friend's brother and I went to go find the hotel that I was going to stay at for orientation. I lost two days at my hostal because I didn't know I had to stay somewhere else so I asked to see if I could switch a day or so at the end. So I get the hotel with my stuff eventually and meet a girl from our program and invite her out to hang out with Fernando, Jordi and I and go to the light show in el Parque Reserva. This was a super cool light show where the fountains were different colors and the music was cool!! We even ran through the fountains and got a bit wet. 

As one can tell from our pictures I think we enjoyed it! We eventually had some anticucho, beef hearts, and another platter for dinner and headed back to our hotel. Breakfast in am was sooo soo good! Hasta pronto!