So our new apartment isn’t quite all it was cracked up to be. On Wednesday, while I was peacefully washing my hands, the sink in the bathroom proceeded to fall off the wall, breaking all the attendant plumbing and spilling nasty black gunky water everywhere. Luckily the sink itself didn’t break, so it was a pretty easy repair once the landlord finally got around to fixing it this morning. But to be fair, he probably couldn’t find anyone to come fix it yesterday as it was national strike day of the week or something. Prices have been going up across the board here, and the US $ doing so poorly isn’t helping as a large chunk of the economy runs on the US dollar, at least here in Cuzco. So people across the country took to the streets yesterday to get the government to do something about the inflation. There were marches, and on my way to school in the morning I was lucky enough to run into an impromptu roadblock thrown up by some yahoos with a bunch of extra tires to burn and bottles to break. Unfortunately I forgot my camera that morning, so no pictures, but it seems like it must be a pretty common occurrence judging by the reaction of motorists and the police, so hopefully we’ll see some more civil disturbance soon (fingers crossed).<\/p>\n
This weekend will be the first we have to do touristy stuff, as we won’t be looking for an apartment to live in or moving at all. We anticipate lots of sleeping in and maybe a day trip or two to see some sights that we’ve been neglecting. Or we might just go to the black market and load up on DVDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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