Back in Cusco, it was time to try....
I was probably doing it wrong, but it was pretty difficult to eat with very little meat. Had a pretty distinct taste to say the least.
We got a pretty amazing view over the city.
Erin and I are in this picture somewhere.. :) front and center, front and center
Melissa, Jackie, Lucy, Morayma and Me!
I couldn`t see the reason for their running, but then one of the track coaches came out and told me to go inside. i went in, but stayed at the door with some other people. Then another coach (my sports class teacher) told me to come back by her, away from the door. I did and then some people came inside the hotel, covering their mouths and noses with their coats. Then I smelled it. Not tear gas, I´m assuming, as there was no crying, but it was stinky.. so... hm, stink bomb?
We ended up getting 4th place out of the 6 or 7 teams that were there. hmm.. maybe there were only 5.. i know we didn't do that great.
After I finished my events.. I went straight to the street. For ice cream. and crackers. and chips. aaaand cookies. :) mmmmm. mm!! haha, then Johanna, Morayma, some guy friends and I went to this big indoor market.. like a mall in a warehouse. Sort of. But while we were in there browsing, i heard a big commotion and then some of the stall owners started shutting all the doors of the warehouse. Morayma went and asked what was going on and was told that the protestors were coming by and could cause trouble. I guess they'd gone through the market before and destroyed a lot of stuff.. so they locked all the big doors and we were stuck in there for like 45 minutes with a lot of the lights off.. just the individual stores' lights. Not that it was dark, not that there was any real panic, but it was definitely weird. My friends and I.. well, we just sat talking, taking pictures, and having fun :) We got tired, though, and after talking with someone by the doors, we were let through an individual exit thing that we had to crouch through.
That night we went out for pizza and dancing :) 1.5 hours of sleep and back to Lima the next morning!!
(Luis is the one standing directly behind Patan, the mascot)There are also other activities during this Week of Engineering. Basketball, soccer, volleyball, ping pong, chess, nintendo games, drinking games (ej. one puts a diaper on another and the diapered one has to finish a babybottle of beer faster than the rest), a funny theatrical performance, dances (traditional and modern), areobics, king and queen contest, and more drinking games (something with a tricycle).
Then, Thursay morning (the week after I met luis), each team was given a set of 100 tasks. The goal was to complete as many tasks as possible before 5 pm. In the first task I saw, people were putting on fruit, vegetables and other food costumes. Then they ran around looking for `una gordita` or `chubby girl`. They ended up putting a wig and a skirt on a boy and the foods chased him throughout the university.
Another task involved a bunch of guys dressed in black cloaks.. they went into a dark room then picked up two boys and helped them move thoughout the air, making a matrix scene. There was a task to find an old concert ticket, to wash a car, to wax a guys chest (no screaming) to dye the president`s and vice president´s hair (vp= luis), to chew and pass a piece of gum between 10 people.. mmmm ok, i was involved in that.. , to have a nonenigineering foreign person read a complicated math problem in their native language, like the gum one but with a worm (we didn´t do that.. i havent seen any worms really), things like that.
The last day, a Saturday, of the competition, we played basketball and soccer. We came in first in basketball but 4th in soccer. Then there were sketches and a dance competition later on in the day and everyone started dancing around the limit of the actual dance competition. we were all having sooo much fun dancing and it got bigger and bigger. They finally announced the overall winners.. not us. we got fifth out of 7. oops. kinda the worst they´ve ever done, i think. oh well. Haha, one girl on the winning team broke down crying, I broke out laughing.. at her. sorry girl, but that´s silly.
Tree Frog!
We stopped at this 'floating house' for lunch while we were going down the Amazon River. There was this baby playing with a piglet.. but then the baby started to cry.. nobody was really paying attention, so i went and pushed the pig away and it kept nuzzling me too, then it bit me! Not in a mean way, but in a 'hungry piglet' way, i guess.. so i tell someone that it was biting the baby and they're like.. noooo.. i said, "well it bit me!" and they're like, "nah" and still didn't worry about it :/ 
One night, pulling away the curtain to go into the bathroom, something flew across the room and dove into the toilet... i jumped back and said.. "Erin! there's a bird in the toilet! What do i do?!" So went to take a look and this is what we saw... 
One day we went to this 'island' in the river (it's a REALLY wide river). this was the surface of it.. just dry-ish mud, not so hard that we didn't leave footprints or sink sometimes as we walked. We had a LOT of fun here!
3-Toed Sloth!! 
Little crocodiles or 'caymans'. They were youngins being protected in a deep mud-walled well. A guy lowered himself down about 15 feet in there to get them for us.. we were a little afraid he'd be eaten and told him not to go.. i guess he just thought that was funny. 
We had little shadows for a little while. 
Dance party in the village one night! We just danced around a candle and had flashlights for strobe lights :)
Back in the city, we went through the market they call the 'floating market of Belen' because when the water is high (about half the year) the first floors of all the houses in this area are submerged. There is still a market, however, on the second floors and people go from shop to shop in boats. We were able to walk along the street though. I guess the water gets about 15 feet high when it's there, though!
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