Journey to Machu Picchu (Day 2) All of us barely slept last night. It was about -5 to -10 Celcius. At 5:30am, Hassan and I got woken up by one of the cooks banging on the tent and shouting: "Coca!" It was our morning coca tea. As we struggled to get up, wrapping ourselves with the blankets and savouring the hot warmth of the tea, I thought to myself that at least the worst night was over and now we have a 10 hour trekahead of us. I walked ahead with W...

My Journey to Machu Picchu (Day 1) I had to get up at 4:15am this morning because I was being picked up at 4:45am. I was still a bit upset about Kelly's goodbye but I figured that this trip was going to help me forget. I was the first to be picked up and the van picked up five other people (two of which were from Holland, more about one of them later). The other people in the van were not in my group for the trek. We showed up at a place near the Plaza where a ...

I had trouble getting up this morning. I think I got up at 10am. I was late for my last day of my project, however I knew that today was just a day for goodbyes. I got to my project at 11am, and the kids were learning more about Peru. The kids were leaving early today (around 12) because they were all going on a field trip to some park in Cuzco. Margoth stopped the class to let everyone know that today was my last day. While she was making her speech and thanking...

Today, I don't know why, but I woke up at 7:30am, and I wasn't tired! I really wanted to go to my project because it was the day before my last day...sniff, sniff... Caitin was out cold and I wasn't going to wake her up, I was just planning on going without her and make her fell incredibly guilty when I came back. I got to my project a little late again (at 9:45am), and the kids were already learning about the different regions of Peru as well as the types of dr...

I got up today without a problem. I was surprised since I went out the night before really late. It was the usual routine again. We got to our project really late today, though. Class had already started when I got there. Today, we were learning about the map of Peru and we were going to glue papier mache on it. I asked Margoth if it would be also good to show them where Peru is on a world map, and she said that I can do that tomorrow. Today was a day for discip...