Machu Picchu

Micah, the other USC student, and I want to be featured on USC's study abroad site so we took a few pictures together at Machu Picchu. This one is definitely my favorite! Haha!

This weekend we went to Machu Picchu, it was so amazing I really can't describe it. I don't think the pictures really do it justice either. I've seen a lot of pictures of it in the past, but I never realized how big it is! We were there for over 3 hours and there is still a lot we didn't get to see. It rained at first, but quickly cleared up and it was nice and cool while we walked around. I was also surprised how many llamas were there! They were all over the place!!!

The town near Machu Picchu where we stayed, Aguascalientes, was really cool. Unlike other Peruvian cities there was no traffic at all. All of the people were really nice and although the prices were more expensive than Cuzco, they were willing to bargain (even on food prices!). In fact, we got free chips and guacomole and a free glass of wine at dinner! Later, we got 5 drinks for the price of one!

In other news, I guess I spoke a little too soon about the directors at Yanapay knowing what they're doing. Today when I went I wasn't on the schedule to work with the kids so instead they wanted me to be a "marketing intern" this week. This actually meant that I walked around touristy parts of town passing out flyers to English-speaking tourists - I cannot imagine a worse job, seriously. I talked to the ISA director so I'll be going to work at a school tomorrow and for the rest of this week. Then next week I'll go back to Yanapay to work with the kids. Hopefully this will all work out, but I'm hopeful that it will and I'm really glad the people at ISA are looking out for me.

PS - I'm sorry some of the pictures are small! The internet connection is pretty slow here so it takes even longer to upload bigger pictures, but I'll try to make them as big as possible.