Sexy Woman...

Yesterday i had a few adventures...after doing a few things in the morning like visiting a textiles cooperative and seeing weaving we met up at the central plaza in Cusco called Plaza dÁrmas. From there we went in taxis in geoups supposedly up to Suqsayhuaman which is an old Incan ruins above Cusco which looks out over the whole city. little did our group know that we were actaully going to the trout farm first, so our taxi took us striaght to suqsayhuaman.

OK before i go any further let me clarify the pronunciation of Suqsayhuaman...when you hear the locals say it it sounds exactly as if you are saying Sexy Woman. So when we first all heard this we had no idea what they were talking about and they would always point to the hill above the city where there is a massive white statue of Jesus (just near Suqsayhuaman) and say Sexy Woman. i couldn´t help it but i am so immature that i cracked up every time. i just thought it was twisted that all the locals referred to the Jesus statue as sexy woman, wrong in so many ways.

So anyway, the four of us ended up getting stranded at sexy woman while the others ate a massive lunch at the trout farm. We made our way to the statue after a painful climb up the huge mountain, the higher we walked the harder it got to breath without your lungs falling out. The view from the top was amazing. Luckily i had walked near there before so i knew how to get back to the hostel. We phoned Rob from the hostel and they had been freaking out that we´d drivne to theother trout farm 4 hours away. lucky for me i don´t like trout. So to make up for it Bon took us to jack´s for lunch and we got to live it up for 18 soles each!

The funniest part of the day was when we were waiting around for Bon after we dinally made our way to the hostel and discussing how they could have left us stranded at Sexy Mama. Will casually and unknowngly referred to Suqsayhuaman as Sexy Mama about three times in one sentence by which stage the other three of us we rolling on the gorund with laughter. Since that momnet and for the remiander of the trip Will will be known as Sexy Mama. hahahha

We went to a tradiaiotnal dance performance last night as part of our tourist ticket and it was okay and a little funny...well i made it funny in my head to pass the time. All the other things we have done with our tourist ticket (70 soles) has been really bad...all the museums except one that we have visited i´ve been like ís this even a museum or just room with thre photos in it?¨
Anyway, after the dance thing we went to a vege restaurant where i thought we would have vegetables. But no, we had amound of rice with a fried egg on top served with banana, cucumber and tomato. it was very odd and i couldn´t have made a weirder meal if i had tried.

We are heading to huaran on thursday to start the project working on rebuilding an old Spanish building into a hostel and setting up the marketing, website, staff training and other communtiy things so that they can have a share of tourism in their area. i have to go and buy some teaching materials as i will be taking an English class at the school...agghh, i have no idea what to do but i´m sure it will be fun!