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ive just recieved an email from katie saying that its not possible to add comments on my page. is this true? if so i need to sort it out but i have a minor issue in that the maintenance page of my blog is in spanish, and i dont understand an awful lot of it. [...]

Yaroo! More than 500 visitors to my page!

Ive done it, broken the 500 barrier! Im so happy i could boogie round the PC! i wont though because im the only white face in quite a large internet cafe and im getting enough stares as it is. theres a sweet called a ‘boogie ice’ you can buy here, its a little chewing gum [...]

Ok, peruvian computers have outwitted me again.

No pictures im afraid, the computer has decreed that anything which is remotely taxing to its circuits is bad. so you´ll just have to wait till later/tomorrow/soon. (delete as appropriate).

Laziness and Self-portraits.

Sorry about the lack of posts in the past couple of days, the surf yesterday was absolutely amazing and i spent about 6 hours in the water so now i look like someone has botoxed my shoulders. it aches so much next day because im so unfit, but im sure the ache is good, it [...]

Parrots. Quite a long way away though.

Even the pine trees here are cool!

Peruvian Hills

A less-ugly dog

A peecture for the Mother

I saw this and thought of you…

School Trips and Sunburned Noses

I finally went on the dreaded school trip yesterday, it was postponed from thursday which was a stroke of luck as it meant that i could spend the whole of thursday surfing in 30degree heat which was supremely satisfying. anyway, the school trip started at 9, we were all packed onto buses (no mean feat [...]

Sunset In Huanchaco

Sometimes i just [...]

Spectacularly Ugly Dog

I felt this dog needed to reach a wider audience.

Peruvian Street

i really like this shot- i dont know what was up with the chap in the suit but i think it gets close to saying what peru is really like. note, every street looks like this one, regardless of whether its the smartest street in Trujillo or the sidestreets of huanchaco, there are always potholes [...]

Big Smile Back In Place

I was able to go surfing today for the first time since saturday so im so happy, and i caught two good waves. its sort of taking the place of smoking- i go for a surf before breakfast, one before lunch if im not working, and one later on if i get back early enough. [...]

Peru versus UK, and other musings

Thankyou to maz for pointing out that my last post made me sound like withnail in the scene where he’s smothered himself in deep heat ( soup? why didnt i get any soup?).
I’m still feeling really rough, i cant work out whether its just a cold or what, but my head hurts to an alarming [...]

Illness

i felt a bit wierd last night so i went to bed early (ive stopped smoking, so i keep feeling wierd) but i woke up this morning with a horrible cold. the worst place on earth to get a cold- the landlady of where im staying has an odd taste in music so with my [...]

The Sea

This is where i live.

Gotta love the picture-postcard shot…

A very big grasshopper

i dont have small hands, and that is my index finger. i apologise for the quality of the shot, i took it at 2am today at a merengue (is that spelt right?) gig near where im staying.

Two of my classes.

This class are really nice and well behaved, theyre about tom’s age and a joy to teach.
This lot, on the other hand, despite their angelic smiles, are impossible. there are three pupils missing from the picture because i had to send them outside for misbehaving.

The School Gates

the writing that is just about visible all over the gates is tippex- the kids LOVE to grafitti anything that stays still long enough, to the point where every flat surface in the whole city seems to be covered with messages and awful ingrish (ingrish is great round here, it tries to be english but [...]

Thursday on the other side of the world.

I totally forgot to include this in my last post: when i was listening to carlin and carloses band a couple of nights ago i heard a very british voice from round the corner. i went to see who it was, got talking to the girl and asked where she was from. she said “oh [...]

A little Crabby

I went fishing on sunday (yes, its taken me that long to find a computer that worked reasonably well) and these crabs were absolutely everywhere and would just sun themselves on the rocks. they were rather difficult to get close to, hence marginally out of focus, and the picture really doesnt do justice to the [...]

Carlin, a native musician and possibly the most talented man i have ever met.

this is carlin and his amigo from california who is a singer and pianist. carlin will play any instrument he is given to a reasonable degree of competence within about ten minutes. The funky background is the upstairs bar in The Wave, a bar in huanchaco which is the local gringo meeting place.
right thats it [...]

The notice above this chair reads "paradise central".

this is one of the chairs in the restaurant- all of the tables have names and it amused me that a little plastic table and a little wooden chair could be named “paradise central”.

These are the people i live with.

this is fernando’s mother, doña petita. shes a great cook if you like peruvian food (im still not certain, but im slowly coming round to it)This is my host, Fernando.This is Fernando’s sister-in law, who lives above me. she’s victors mother.

IT DID!!!

So i managed to post my first picture! yaroo! it took some doing and i only managed one because i was in a tearing hurry, trying to post between classes. today im going surfing, so the hurry is there again but this time i THINK i know what im doing. here goes…
ok this picture is [...]

will this work?

Daily Update, the cats are pushing up the daisies.

im having some serious issues at the moment uploading pictures. ive got a few good ‘uns so far but there seems to be some sort of problem with the software compatability- i can get them onto a pc but the site refuses to upload them… will get back with any changes on the situation.
in other [...]

First day in Trujillo

peru is amazing. ive just had my first lesson and i really enjoyed it!!! the kids are all too happy to answer back in the school but if you shout at them they clam up and are really fun to teach. sounds slightly mean actually. its so sunny all the time i just cant believe! [...]

Hotet Inkawasi, Lima.

ive just woken up from possibly the best eight hours of sleep in my life. i got into lima at 11pm last night after flying pretty much non-stop for nearly 20 hours. on the transatlantic leg the couple in front’s baby decided about an hour in that it had something to say, and after that [...]