So the past 9 days have been amazing, two friends from home, Eric "Eggster" Kriczky and Joe "Cheesefeet Murphy" Skomorucha came to visit. We spent a few fun days in Lima, even watched American football!, and then went to Lake Titicaca, which is like the largest lake or highest large lake in the world (something like that) and the largest lake in the continent. It is located at 12,500 ft above sea level and absolutely gorgeous.

The altitude was a bit of a problem, but by the last day we took a small hike high up to the top of the hill to look down on the lake and city of Puno. Up there some old lady was herding some sheep and started yelling at us, and I realized i couldn´t understand her and told her in Spanish and Quechua (native language) that i didn´t understand Quechua, and then she raised her stick in the air and waved it. She was about 25 feet away, down a small hill. She then bent over as if to pick something up. Thinking she wanted to throw something, we decided to walk away. I had my Phillies shirt on and Joe hypothesized the Quechua lady was a Mets fan.


Soooo a little about my living situation. I have no bathroom in my house and have to walk 3 blocks to use the town medical post´s (when it´s open) or about 3 blocks in another direction to use the public bathroom. (not as clean, just a hole in the ground). Some people in my town do their business into a plastic bag (like if it´s late at night) and carry it out to the trash cans in our town´s plaza later on.

A couple Sundays ago I woke up and really had to use the toilet. I knew the health post wasn´t open yet and the plaza is full of people Sunday mornings, so getting to the other bathroom could be tough. So I thought, When in Rome, and decided that for just this one time, I´d do the plastic baggy method. Unfortunately I had never shat into a plastic bag before, and completely missed. Instead there was a pile of turd right on my floor. So I had to open my windows to get in light so I wouldn´t step in it (there was no electric), hoping nobody would look in and mention I had poop on my floor. I quickly got the poop into a bag and wiped the area with cloths. And by cloths I mean a couple of my own socks soaked in soapy water, because I had no real cloths to clean the contaminated area with. In the end it made me down a couple socks and feeling dirty, since I had just shat on my bedroom floor.


GO PHILS!!