Back and well again

Hey! I´ve been meaning to write a ncie long blog about my trip to Ayacucho because it was absolutely incredible. Unfortunately, right at the very end of my trip last monday morning I got awfully sick, to the point that I was basically bed-ridden for two days and am still feeling the remnants of it today. I have no idea what it was: Was it the cuy that I ate (guinea pig, a particularly important cuisine of the Andes)? Was it a cold? Or was it sorroche (altitude sickness)? Well, I can cross out altitude sickness, cause that should have been cured as soon as I got to Lima, which did not happen.

Anyways, don´t feel too bad for me. While being bed ridden I read all of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince non-stop for two days. Haha! So I was happy nevertheless (the ending did not lift my spirits too much though...when I finished I felt like I was in mourning for the rest of the day). Curiously, I ended up reading the british version since I could not find the american version down here. This means that I now know some interesting british slang words, like "snogging" (which apparently means "making out").

Besides reading of Harry Potter I have been mainly staying in this week, recuperating, and also reading the large number of fotocopies that I have gathered after visiting so many libraries. As a break, I meant today to give a detailed description of my trip to Ayacucho. But for that I think I need the (humility aside) incredible pictures that I took on the trip ( :-) ). I do have the pictures with me, but I was hoping that the internet cafe would have its own photo editing program so I can reduce the file size a bit and make them more suitable for internet viewing. Well, they don´t. So I will have to go home and do it with Microsoft Photo editor instead (a program which I hate, but it does the job ... sorta). So my trip to Ayacucho will have to wait just a few more days. I am really sorry. Thankfully, since not too much has happened since, I don´t feel too guilty postponing this blog a little haha.

Write back later. I will also write an update soon about how I am planning to go sand boarding this weekend around the dunes of the Peruvian desert! Yeah!