Lima: Week 2

I've been working behind the bar here and it's been an interesting experience. Everyone I work with is great and it's fun pouring drinks and pretending that I actually like talking to people. I've found that I'm really good at faking it. On the other hand, I think I've seen all that Lima has to offer. I went to the Catacombs under a Franciscan church which was pretty cool since I'm into bizarre things. There were literally just heaps of bones from random people thrown haphazardly in some places behind bars, sometimes arranged into geometric patterns but none of it looking like what I expected. According to all my research in the 3 "Scary Stories" books from when I was in 5th grade, if a body isn't laid to rest "properly" then you get a ghost that haunts you until the bones are buried properly. That being said, I don't plan on going back there in the dark nor do I plan on stealing any of the bones as a souvenir which would be ridiculously easy to do since they're just lying around...I've got enough bad karma already.

I also went to the Church where Pizarro was laid to rest. Francisco Pizarro was pretty much the Spanish dickhead who was responsible for making the Incas think that he was a god, enslaving them, making them work in mines, and then stealing all the gold and silver and putting it into these massive cathedrals all over Peru. The fact that he's venerated all over Peru is kind of a mystery. Anyway they don't have stop signs here either. Alot of things in South America don't make sense. It's fun.

I'm waiting for a package that mom sent. I'm hoping that it gets here before 2012. In the meantime, I've been trying to learn how to surf with my Austrlian friend Nick which is one of the most difficult physical things I've ever done. There isn't much about it similar to snowboarding really except for the balancing aspect so I'm essentially starting at 0. The hardest thing is pushing yourself up off the board after you catch the wave in order to stand. It takes an incredible amount of upper body strength, which my baby arms lack so it ain't easy. Poco de poco.