It will suprise nobody who's known me for longer that I am not ready for the Birmingham/Rome trip. Although maybe more prepared as usual. I dyed my hair last weekend (but probably won't use any white hotel towels anyway...), yesterday I finished preparing what I want to have signed (dish towels, because I didn't want the usual poster or DVD covers ( Read more... )

Yesterday we celebrated my aunt's 80th birthday. It's strange to think that she's now older than her mother, my grandma, got to be. She died shortly before her 80th birthday ( Read more... )

Well. Hello ( Read more... )

I just came home from visiting a friend since noon to find half of the household standing outside and Rosa's niece in tears. She'd been robbed not even half an hour before - at gunpoint no less. Rosa's son had tried to follow them but they'd shot at him, if I understood that right, although more as a warning, I think. Everybody was still pretty ( Read more... )

Hey, just a quick update to say that I have arrived in Lima safe and sound. And lived through my first fiesta. :)

I feel bad because I haven't posted for ages. I feel bad because I owe people comments. I feel bad because I haven't sent out Christmas cards last year despite offering them. I do suck at being a friend. But I still plan to send cards, they just won't be Christmassy anymore (obviously ( Read more... )

My former roommate has become sort of a spiritual guru. Writing books about the sense of life and things, and how to be a better you. I wish I was kidding but I'm really not ( Read more... )

So, the carpenter is coming to visit me tomorrow. With his girlfriend ( Read more... )

One of the former hogar kids in Peru passed away yesterday. I'm not a doctor and I can only vaguely relay what I was told but apparently he had a kidney failure due to suffering from Lupus ( Read more... )

Since the Belgian therapists do house calls, I got to see something different than Tablada City.

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