Well yes, I am still in Cusco! Didn't really plan on staying here this long but.....I just haven't left yet. I think I shall take a spanish course for at least a week or two, perhaps even a month. It would be pretty helpful. I can more easily volunteer that way or even work somewhere. Meeting some pretty cool people here....getting to know more places. There are options all over the place and I am very indecisive, so it makes it hard to figure out what to do. I really want to go to the Sacred Valley sometime.....but that will probably be after spanish lessons (which would be one-on-one through a non-profit organization with single mothers here in Cusco...although there are other options, too....and sometimes I think maybe I shouldn't take them at all!!! Oh deary dear).
I also want to go to the jungle at some point in time...I met some people that told me of a pretty cool place to go north of here...but there's also a jungle closer than that....so you see? So many damn decisions. Oh well.

I have been meeting a lot of musicians lately that play once in a while around town. Lots of them want a white female singer, so I might try that out for a while. It would be fun. I also might get a small guitar, or maybe a ukelele. Something to keep myself occupied when I am not wandering around talking with random people.

I haven't really taken that many pictures lately....probably because I'm pretty used to everything now....but maybe in the next day or two I will walk around and take pictures of things not commonly seen in the United States. Like...ruins and stuff. Or Peruvian people. Llamas? Llamaville Kentucky. Speaking of Kentucky, there is definitely a lot of pollo here. And fish, and all sorts of other meat, plus a lot of vegetables and fruit. I just went to the market today and bought two huge bunches of herbs for $.50 centimos (in soles) each, avacados for $.70 each(about $.25 american), four bananas for one sol, fresh ground peruvian coffee for $2.50 soles.....so that's pretty cool. It's a huge market...they have everything from pig heads to wooden flutes. Maybe I'll take pictures of that tomorrow, when I plan to stroll on down and get ingredients for spagetti, and where I will pass 5 people offereing massages, 3 kids selling finger puppets, 4 people selling paintings or postcards (which are truly amazing by the way), 1 person selling ukeleles (on my ukelele, I keep strummin' gayly, on my ukelele, a falalalalalala!) and 4 people that want me to take a picture with their llama for a small donation. Yes indeed.

So right now I am staying at a different hostel that I was at before. I have a private room, and she's giving me the same rate I had at the last place for a dormitory, because I'm staying a couple weeks...I guess. It's a pretty cool place. They have about 4 parrots. I was feeding them bread earlier today. Maybe they'll let me hold them sometime. That'd be fantastic.

Hmm....what else has happened....I don't know. They have a lot of crystals and other stones here...really awesome stuff. I bought some rose quartz, clear quartz, serpentine, and a couple of other things for really cheap, but I heard it's way cheaper out of the town, so I will wait to get more...I love getting stones. Hehe. Anyway...everything is groovy, so....what else can I really ask for? Except to evolve and be a better person always. That's all.

Okay, adios mi amigos. Buenos noches.