Yesterday I met with the organisation I will be working with. It was situated very nicely close to the Agricultural University. After taking part of a morning meeting, I met a woman, originally from Japan, she offered to bring me downtown to see the famous church, catacombs, plaza mayor and china town.
We took a bus and went for an hours ride. Imagine that the whole city of Lima (8 millions) is almost as many people as it is in the whole Sweden (9 millions). So I don’t think I would have seen as much as I did if it were not to be for my great new friend (who by the way is doing research of indigenous people close to Pucallpa). So I am very grateful for that, it was a lovely time together. And I actually felt pretty ok walking around in the city centre and to take the bus. People were very helpful and it was much calmer than what I imagined it to be after reading all the stories in guidebooks….
But it was a bit entertaining to try to find some stamps in the city. Many streets had a theme, like one street had a lot of religious shops, another one was filled with printing offices and then again there where the stamps street. Not for postcards, but for stamping letter in beautiful patterns and figures. But after a few “por aqui…” we ended up in the public post office. One postmark was 5 soles and 5 cents. The postcard was 1 soles. In Swedish crowns I think it is a total of more than 20sek…. And it took around two weeks to get to Europe. So I do not think I will write many postcards. I will try to keep you in the loop from internet.
My friend from Japan and I calculated that a 10 minutes phone call from a land line in Peru to home would equal one postcard. So I do enjoy the existence of Internet.
2 comments:
Hej Carin!
Vad spännande att läsa om hur du har det :) Jag blir mer och mer sugen på att åka till Peru! Hanna och jag lämnar in vår ansökan imorgon eller på tisdag, sen får vi bita på naglarna i ett par veckor innan vi får veta hur det går. Vi känner oss i alla fall nöjda med vår ansökan, så oavsett hur det går vet jag att vi har ansträngt oss så gott vi kunnat för att få till en bra ansökan.
Väntar med spänning på att få höra mer om dina upplevelser :) Vi hörs Carin! Kram/ Linnea
men hejsan Linnea, sa kul att du tittar forbi och lamnar ett litet spar... :) Vad glad jag blir. Idag har jag skickat ett personligt litet mail till er. Haller tummarna for er med ansokan, ar saker pa att ni gjort den bra. Nu ska jag ga hem och vila en stund innan min eftermiddagslektion borjar. Stor kram!
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