Going my way?
I take a bus to work every day. As the buses drive down the street they yell out destinations of interest they will be passing along their routes. Depending on where you are standing...
Category: Blogging
So To Prove I’m Not Crazy
I’ve done a fair amount of complaining about the difficulty of figuring out what buses go where in Lima. To show our fine friends the sort of difficulties we run across navigating around Lima,...
Job Hunting Tips for Peru
To all my Y people, this post is especially for you: Having worked in employment with newcomers in Ottawa, I had a sense that a CV doesn’t have the same requirements from country to...
Clean Water and Food Prep
So we put in a request for a water filter, which was approved. The filter cost 200 nuevo soles, the trick to converting (roughly) is to divide by 5 and double the answer to...
Passion South of the Equator
As you may have guessed due to my occasional raving, our new favourite drink is the Pisco Sour. Fortunately for us, there was a celebration of Pisco and Pisco Sours at a contemporary art...
Alien Fruit
One day at the Cuso office a bowl was placed on the table which had an unidentified but innocuous looking fruit in it. When asked what it was, we were told it was a...
Mission Accomplished
After a long, exhaustive, and mildly traumatic search, we have found a place to spend the next six months. We’ll be living in a community district called Barranco. It’s not as famous as Miraflores...
Maíz in various forms
Coming to Peru I had been told about the wide variety of potatoes that we would find here (apparently there are around 4,000 varieties to be found in the country!). It is fun to...
