Day 2 of the study and to be honest I was quite excited today to learn some new words and maybe get out and put them into practice. I spent most of the day at my new place doing lessons and coming up with lists of words I could use straight away. For lunch I had brought some small fish and went about attempting to cook then; basically I coated them in seasoning and then fried them in hot oil. They didn't turn out that great but ohwell I have a while to perfect a ...

Day 1 of teaching myself Spanish: not really sure how I am going to go about teaching myself Spanish so the first few hours this morning I spent coming up with a plan to study and teach myself. Elizabeth the lady who's house I am staying in gave me a Spanish learning pack so I decided that, that would be a good place to start. Not having anything else that I really need to do means that I can also dedicate a substantial amount of time to study - I am thinking atl...

Today I needed to head to Trujillo to do some shopping so I decided to get up early and catch a collectivo over to the city. First stop was the mercado and it was absolute chaos - people, chickens, bikes and crap everywhere. I wondered around getting bumped, pushed and pointed at - I ended up buying loads of crap that I didn't really need but liked the look of (must remember I just have one small backpack). Among the treasures were some small scissors, dried figs...

I was woken up at midnight lastnight by the guys at the hostel who were moving around beds in the room and at 5am we had a bunch of people check-in to my room and decide to sit up and talk all morning instead of going to bed. So today is the day to find some long-term accommodation. I went for one last look at Angelo's place and then over to Waikiki House, at around 1pm I decided that Waikiki was the better choice and the old lady had gone to so much effort getti...

After barely any sleep and thinking incessantly about places to move and to whether to buy a board or not I got out of bed and made my way to the market. I talked to a few locals asking them about the best fish to buy and how to cook it etc and settled on a nice 1/2 kg of whiting type fish - coming to a total of $1.20. I then met up with a guy called Angelo a local Couchsurfer with his own little business renting boards, wetsuits and teaching surfing. He seemed m...