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Our mama for the day! Such a sweet lady. We are dressed here in their local clothing! I couldn´t breathe because it was tied so tightly!!! |
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This boys name is Tomo...he made the floating island tour worthwhile |
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The dinner that was cooked by the local family living on the island |
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So after MP I stayed in Cusco for a couple days before heading to Puno. On my last day in Cusco I hung out with this American girl I met on the train ride back to Cusco and her roommate..the both of them were studying Spanish but the 18 yr old girl from France was doing her gap yr. She was to stay in Peru for 6 months and then head to China after that. She was wickedly amazing for 18!! Like seriously i felt she had done so much more than me and was so much more mature and not to mention a fricken decade younger than me!! I love meeting young adults like this cause you just can't help but be in awe of their courage and bravery... When i hear how easy she takes life and how adventurous she is, it just makes me feel like wtf am I doing with all this stupid anxiety about whether i am on the "right" track. It makes me feel inspired that if one person is doing it, i can too (yes I totally need someone else to do something before I can see myself doing it!) Anywho so I took my night bus to puno that night and I was so excited cause I was in the FIRST class seating where my seat reclined all the way and ahhh it was so luxurious!!Hahaa I hadn´t experienced that yet in Peru so I was pretty darn excited! So I get to puno at like 5am and I have nothing booked... No accommodation, no tour, NOTHING!! so I'm like sitting in the bus terminal feeling like ass cause it was so early and i was still like half asleep. I'm fricken freezing and I can't move like an inch. I feel uncomfortable cause I'm in a foreign city, people are yelling strange things and here I am just like stalling in the station, there's this annoying man yelling Arequippa but in that way where its like you're an auctioneer and he just wouldn't stop!! Eventually I peeled my ass from my plastic seat and ended up walking to a tour guide office (like one of two in the bus station) company and inquiring about the floating islands tour and ended up booking it with him. The tour finished yesterday and it was a complete waste of time!! Definitely wouldn't recommend to anyone . The only good thing about the tour was that I got to meet this super adorable kid named Tomo and I kid you not was like a baby Buddha! So smiley with rosy cheeks!! Big brown innocent eyes and ahhhh I just wanted to eat him!! Oh i also got to meet this really awesome Portugese woman named Monica and she was so chill and just had an awesome energy to her. After the tour i headed back to Puno, got dinner with Anis and Monica and then headed back to the hostel to call it a night. So this hostel was recommended to me by Anis and she was telling me how it was completely deserted and she had the entire dorm room to herself so I was like sweet I am staying there! So i´m like in bed getting ready to sleep and at like 10pm the door opens and in comes in the hostel worker and a guy and i´m like gonna loose my marbles!! I just wanna sleep and he comes in prolly gonna make a shit ton of noise and ahh so i look at him and say "are you going to bed soon?" And hes like no, i havent had dinner yet. I´m like freaking out in my head trying to stay calm and be like obvious that i need to sleep early. Anyway I ended up being kinda bitchy to him and felt terrible after, so I apologized and he just laughed it off lol. He actually ended up being quite the character...he was a quarter sri lanken and 3/4 german. Super easy on the eyes but a tad bit too immature. At one point in the night, its like dead quiet, we are almost asleep and he just randomly says, I don´t know what i am doing in life..¨ Me and Anis burst out laughing and completely awaken from that comment. Anywho he had this boyish charm to him and every now and then we would just like hold eachothers gaze for a few seconds and just start laughing out of no where. I love when I can be a total random goof with people and not have it be weird.
Anywho I dunno why but I woke up this morning just feeling really happy and free....it was like I finally let go of whatever I was holding onto since starting this trip and just finally let myself enjoy the ride, the adventure of the unknown and keeping a positive attitude. I think I'm starting to really get into the travelling mode which is great cause like I said before I sorta felt like I wasn't fully living in the present moment and I wasn´t enjoying the fact that I was actually backpacking and doing something I love so much! But now I've finally loosened up and have stopped thinking about the future or past. I have also come to the realization that I can't continue doing what I am doing back home. I feel so stagnant and like time is stagnant, but its NOT! time is completely passing me by and I am not doing what I want to be doing! The hardest part is deciding what to do! There are so many bloody options to choose from. I know that I wanna contribute and give back so whether that means I start working abroad or do some volunteer work, I'm still unsure but I don't think I can just continue backpacking. As much as I love it, sometimes you feel like all you're doing is taking (yes you are contributing to the economy) but I wanna give some of me back.
Anyways I'm sitting in bed in my hostel in Copacabanda and oh something interesting happened to me tonight as I was roaming the streets with Anis. I bumped into a girl I met over 2 yrs ago in Bali and she had been travelling since then! It was so weird to have seen her cause its like what are the bloody chances?!! But ya she's been travelling for over 2 yrs and just wow! Dunno if I could do that but props to her. Anyway I am gonna head to bed now I'm catching a 830 ferry to the isla de Sol which is supposed to be amazing!! But no WiFi on the island so I shall be MIA for a bit! Good night and good dreams! Ciao ciao!
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