A bit about the Job Centre where I work
I work in a municipal building in San Juan de Miraflores. It’s a quite a large 5 storey concrete building with security at all entrances where they check your bags on the way...
Category: Peru
Penguins and mysterious markings in the sand
We went away for the weekend down the coast to a place called Paracas. It has two claims to fame: guano islands which are still part of Peru’s economy (of course the tourist attraction...
Time Zones: Christina vs. Peru
Christina is a very timely sort of a person. It can be a bit unnerving to those of us who take a more casual approach to timeliness. The local NGO Christina is working with,...
Subtle differences
Traffic and public transportation are major themes being in a big city like Lima. Let’s play a game. Can you spot the difference between these two photos? If you guessed that the second...
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...
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...
