not much going on here its going on two months of me being here in arequipa/peru. the 29th will mark my 2nd month. I have managed to have 2 cameras stolen. well one wasnt mine nor really my fault.
I was walking downtown just before christmas maybe the 22nd. bad timings shit ton of people downtown looking for gifts, dirt cheap decorations, champagne, paneton, contraband liquors, who knows what else. basically you should carry valuables and if you do keep them better concealed. The latter was my problem. After my girlfriend met me at some casino downtown. casona villa fortuna (best casino in my mind in arequipa)… we went walking to look for a clothes hamper or something for the kitchen i forget. i had my camera in my pants pocket. It was annoying as i was wearing jeans that were a little tight and tighter with a camera in tow. I happened to be carrying my laptop with me as i had went to have lunch or something at capriccios on mercadores. they have free wifi. I had a small luggage lock on the large pocket containing my laptop. you know those tiny easy to break locks that come complementary (thank god right?) with your luggage. well i was too lazy and too much in a hurry i guess to stop inside of some bodega to open the lock and safely store my camera so i threw it in a smaller bag unlocked. unsafe. i was an easy target. It could not be how i think but i believe that someone clearly saw me do this because within two blocks some girl about 9 or 10 years old tells me my bag is open. great! just great! my girlfriend ask if i had anything inside. yeah! my camera. fuckers tole my camera. she though i was joking. would i be mildly fucking pissed if my camera wasnt stolen?
jump forward about 10 days. its the thurday before new years my gf and our friend drive to camana. we get there and park the car in front of the church across from the house we stayed in. took our things inside the house. everything is great! then we wanted to move the car into more shade. and voila the tire is flat front driver side. awesome. a sign of things to come?
our friend had never changed a tire i guess. I;ve had bad luck and had to change about 5 of my own. so i spend up the process x100 and got it done in a bout 15 minutes if not less. this after my gf had found all the parts we needed cuz he couldnt. it was kinda funny. so we got cleaned up washed the grease and stuff off and went for lunch in the main square. we really wanted cebiche from the market supposedly its good. they were closed as it was well after noon. so on we walked to plaza de armas. there were two cebicherias and we picked the one on the corner it had a pretty decent crowd we figured it must be ok. Me, a gringo, have made better cebiche. It was bad. no kick to the rocoto. i ordered a jalea mixta in contrast to the cebiches my friends had. this was bad too. there was fish. some other seafood i have never seen in a jalea and a few camarones. there wasnt any aji to put on it so we asked. it took forever i started to eat finally it arrived. it tasted faintly of hot rocoto or aji limo and more like celery or something mashed up. gross. we walked back one of the streets where we could take a combi to the beach and we arrived at the beach hopped in the ice cold water decided we had enough and wanted to get warm. so we chilled in the sun drinking cusqueña until about 5 then it got breezy and cold even in the sun. we returned home showered got dressed and ready to go out maybe ate something between that. probably about 8 we left for the plaza de arms with a bottle of majes pisco and some cifrut orange punch. we killed that bottle in a decent time and decided we have plenty of drinking left to do. was just me, my gf, and our friend. so we went to get abother bottle. great. we needed more mixed. i was supposedly to drunk to go so i stayed with my gf and our friend went. he returned later with some tampico and we got back to drinking. we killed the next bottle lots faster. then another friend arrived as he was en route to arequipa from lima with two friends. he had more pisco. awesome! we did a shot. i needed the bathroom. girl needed it too. we went. womens was full so i invited her in since i wasnt going to shit in a public bathroom. I was surprised and she was happy the mens room had a seat. We porbably would have fucked in there but for some reason on the way she had gotten irritated. I thought it was fine but when we left she was still irritated. I dont know about what. she wanted a kiss so i did. then was wanted otro, and otro, and yapa, and yapita. and sometimes that just annoys me. she got more annoyed. more like furious. i guess it was the tequila talking or in this case the pisco. i grabbed carlos and was like WE HAVE TO GO. somehow in maybe 10 minutes of bathroom break he is stumbling drunk. what the fuck. now i must deal with a furious drunk gf, and my drunk friend. she was no help. she just got more mad that i was allowing him to lean on my shoulder since he couldnt barely stand. we were walking to slow for here and i dont know what else.
then it really got worse i dont know what i said something like calm down, come back here, dont want so fast. after all some help would have been great. it never arrived she got more mad screaming i can go fuck whatever girl i want and i dont know what else. it was quite an abusive tirade she threw. i was drunk but not too stupid. however i had enough of insults and was trying to calm her down only to recieve more insults. i think i grabbed her arm trying to get her to walk with us. she continued mad and whatever else. whatever. I was walking home! so i left them. then about 10 or 15 minutes after arriving home im still waiting for them. shit. something happened, theyre lost. who knows. i start walking back calling their names. I hear nothing. im getting kind of worried. i walk around some of the corners close to the house. nothing. then i come back towards the house and our friend is stumbling dow the middle of the street. i call his name no response so i go up behind his stumbling ass and get him. he’s kinda fucked up his face was cut up around his eye brows. i ask him what happened where is my gf etc. he knows nothing. what the fuck thank god we were in front of the police station.
I take him there and the guy comes to the door and is trying to figure out what happened. neither of us know i explain in what was probably great but drunken spanish i left them to walk and here i find him and my gf isnt here. in a minute or two a cop in a truck comes by i dont think he was called he jsut happen to come by and the officer with us ran out. i ran out. I had already told the cop i wasnt she if i could trust my friend i really didnt know him well. i ask the other cop if he had seen a chascosa about 4 cm shorter than me and he said sube. so i entered and he knew exactly where she was. huddling under an entrance to a house scared as shit. I guess my friend had fallen or something and hit his head on the ground. or that a group of 4 or 5 people came over to start some shit and they roughed him up. She isnt quite sure but someone grabbed the camera which she had between her tits or had fallen out when a guy was chasing her. something along those lines. other than scared shitless she was fine.
I was scared for them. more scared for her.
next time i’ll try not to leave her like that even if shes with a good friend but there is only so much stupidity, screaming, and verbal abuse i can take. I guess our friend went to the hospital in the morning while we slept. he got 4 or 5 stiches and some antibiotics.
we didnt do much that friday (new years eve) slept most the afternoon often and on hungover as shit. we finally we feeling better enough to keep some food and gatorade down. we felt better after that. we later went out and bought fireworks with the 2 kids that lived where we were staying and lit them up around midnight. we kept new years eve and day low key, quiet. sunday we returned to lima after waking up and getting the tire fixed for the return trip.
everything has been alright, quiet, boring and eventful but kinda ll the same day after day. im still waiting to get a job in geology. my girlfriend got her period after being about a day or two later than the last. she had forgot a couple pills and took them the following morning so that had us both kinda scared. all is good now.
now i must apologize for all that read this. i suck at writing and almost failed every highschool english class. it makes sense that i like spanish lots more. oh and aced my spanish in college. so for those reasons my paragraphs are huge. my sentantes probably runons and really i dont care to capitalize every fucking sentance and put commas where they should be and who knows what else.
