So i smashed together a quick video from the rescue zoo...it's a little low-res but you get the idea
random other things...hmmm
Went out for drinks w/ Erick & Diego and some other teachers&students from Euroidiomas Friday nite...supposed to meet some other foreigners but it didn't really happen. There are people here always trying to network native English-speakers with the locals who want to improve their language...the Peruvians can show us around in exchange for free conversational English!
Really, it's a win//win.
What else...
went all over Lima w/ Peter yesterday...started out jumping the Metropolitano towards the city...and cabbed it to Gamarra in La Victoria <<it was like a scene from Indiana Jones or something, in a 3rd world market
...walking thru, ducking under all the stuff hanging off the ceiling, while people pull at you to either read your tarot cards or to buy something you don't want
The smell is something to be experienced. Whoa.
It rotated constantly from incense -to heinous meat smells -to fresh bread cooking -to rotten vegetables then the plastic-wrapped-stench-of-'anything'-from-China
-to dirty underwear...then back to incense! (repeat)
Then there's the food section that is swarming with flies while butchers everywhere are chopping whatever animal up & rolling it in salt so it can sit out till someone decides to buy it!
Trying to exit these blocks of markets we somehow ended up on a street COVERED in garbage & grown men, drunk & rolling around on top of it all
while itty-bitty grandmothers rummage thru the filth to find something to sell.
The whole scene was just sad.
Next we cabbed it over to the beautiful Plaza de Armas aka Plaza Mayor and Plaza de San Martin. 
We got a little lost on the bus system on the way home but it all sorted itself out...hooked up w/ Andhi, got some groceries & Peter made us a great pasta dinner w/ some rediculously expensive Ragu!
All-n-all, a pretty polarizing day.
(did i use it correctly?)
