After all the excitement on my day of arrival everthing seems to continue on smoother lines now. Shortly after writing my blog post yesterday I was picked up at the hotel by the Rodriguez family. I then stayed at their home yesterday and today. It’s planned that I’ll return there after Arequipa.
I’m now waiting for my plane to Arequipa which is scheduled to fly at 19:40 (it’s 18:40 in Peru now). Through a contact in Arequipa I was able to confirm my stay at a family in Arequipa and they should now know I’m coming and pick me up from the airport.
I spent most of today and yesterday learning Spanish. I did not invest too much time learning the language while still in Switzerland because I just didn’t have any time left to invest. I’m looking forward to learn that language full-speed now and it definitely should be a lot easier than Japanese. :-) Even though I have lost much of the Japanese I knew there are currently many situations where I wished the people would understand that language, because I can only think of the sentence in Japanese but not in Spanish (of course if they understood English or German or French that would be even better). But anyway, staying with a Peruvian family and learning at a school for one month should do wonders to my Spanish abilities. Maybe I should also switch my computer’s language, which thanks to the wonders of Mac OS X (or Linux for that matter) is easily done.
There’s not much more to tell for now. Just a question to the gadget-equipped part of my readership: does anyone know if it is somehow possible to send MMS from Peru using an Orange mobile phone? The information I found on the Orange Web site about roaming in Peru says there is no way. Would be nice to be able to moblog from time to time.