Before Trujillo.

So tonight I'm leaving to Trujillo where they're going to move my grandpa's casket to a burial ground in his hometown. I've decided that I better update now because I'm going to the boondocks and there will be no internet or electricity there. I'm still trying to figure out what would be the best survival tool for me when I get there.

Well anyways! I woke up around 9 o'clock today and headed to the city. Right when I walked outside of the house along the shore... I stumbled upon something that I haven't seen this whole trip. A skatepark!


Circa.




So by the time I took the forth picture, a guy around his thirties approached me and my dad saying something in spanish that I didn't understand. Right when we got in the car my dad told me that the guy was telling him that he built this skatepark for the kids and he also gathered local graffiti artists together. (As you can see) I gotta say I have respect for the guy. But why the hell didn't my dad tell me about what he was saying before I got into the car so I could have at least asked him some questions and give him some kudos?! Oh well. I'm angry, but its whatevers.

Look at this sign. Follow the arrow to Jesus and Maria! Hahaa.


And look who I found again. Envelope man! What's your message?! Can I open it?!


Remind me to buy me one of these for myself when I'm officially RICH. A "Lamborgini" LOL.


Walking around town there's a whole bunch of casinos inside of hotels which is actually pretty nice in the inside. The security wanted to kick my ass for taking pictures and made me delete them in front of him but I'M TOO SLICK!


Asides the fact of how slick I am, I'm also completely clueless with gambling so I ended up at a local lottery stand just scratching my money away.


I won 9 Soles ($3) and lost 20, got myself a bottle of glass-bottled gatorade in the pharmacy and found this...


Does Rite Aid pharmacies use these calculators? Remind me to buy myself one of these also for the shop. It'll remind me to just take a chill pill when marc stresses me out. (Just kidding Marc, I love you)

Okay enough with the random pictures. We're getting to scenery. I came to Lima expected to see some Inca shit and as soon as we got to the center of the capital, everything looks like Rome! (Not that I've been to Rome) The architectural designs are fuckin' amazing. Mostly Spanish influenced because the Spaniards ruled Peru for quite a period of time.




Wanna be Cinderella for the day?


This is the presidential palace. Comparable to the White House but you can call it the Brown House if you may. I think its way nicer than DC.


This is not a counter-terrorism act or nothing but the dudes are just making sure no one bust a JFK to the Japanese Peruvian presidente! (The President is Japanese. Nihonjin!)



This next picture is me feeding flying-rats aka pigeons. I tried to run through them in attempt to get the whole dramatic bird-flying effects for the picture but failed miserably. These fools are way too damn fat to fly so they HOPPED!


Hippity-hop they went and that's the best I could get. Oh yeah and Dianne in SANDALS?! Since when?! No fucking way. Well it was way too hot for anything else. Have mercy on my toes.

Talk about hotness. I had to get myself cone. (Holler at the cones crew. Aw)


This shit ended up being the worst-tasting cone I've ever had in my life. Yuck! It tasted like it was watered down.


Whoa... God must have spent a little more time on you.


"Haaaay girl!"



Play on Playa. I saw "Playa" everywhere and I didn't understand what the hell it was. I figured it meant "Parking".



Whatever happened to using Goblins?


The Magic School Bus in real life.


So now I'm on the freeway...
Uno.



Dos.



Three.


Quatro.


OF it is.

Moving along...
You see these kids? They were following me for a quarter mile trying to get me to buy some Chiclet. One of them grabbed Robert's Inca Cola and the other one was talking about how my digi-cam is "Muy Bonita!" Oh HELL NAW. Hov said I'll kill you lil' nigga. You crasy.


Check out this vest. Money hongraay. Hustler's uniform.


Me and Robert came across a cultural center by accident and decided to check it out. There was an exibition on skateboaring in Peru. There was a whole bunch of images of this guy named Felix Faucher. He was born in Lima but his family decided to move to Montreal. Later on he decided to come back to skate his hometown in Peru and here's some pictures of the dude. Maybe you guys have heard of him? I don't know.


Check him out. www.FelixFaucher.com


Skate worldwide.




Right when I look outside the window of the cultural center, this is what I saw.


I think the emotion of the stencil is striking. Look at their faces. And what's the message? Is there a reason why it is outside of a cultural government building? Think about it.



First and only skater I saw in Lima.


And then a group of Jiggy kids. God loves Jiggy.



Then we walked to an outdoor mall. Self-explanatory.



There's Hooters here by the way! Bomber than ours because it's built right off the cliff.


Her Hooters weren't that amazing but it's okay.



When I was walking around, I saw some girl holding pictures of different nail designs so you know me, I had to check it out. There's all this 3D Japanese shit in the picture so I was convinced! She was advertising on the streets so she walked me underground down to the nail salon. This is what they told me that they could do...


I'm gonna sue them for FALSE ADVERTISEMENT! When I got there she said "they ran out of the material for the 3D." Don't lie to me guuuuuurl. I left with mad disappoinment and so was she.



On the streets I saw this man and a lady walking around together. At first I was like... why the hell does he have a whole bunch of remote controls around his neck? As I got closer, I found out that the guy was BLIND! Oh that nasty ass ho is using him as a remote control holder and selling it to people so that they would feel sorry for him. Nasty ass ho. Did him dirty.


Biggest McDonald's ever. Supposedly it's the cool thing to eat overhere.


Okay too much city stuff for the day. I'm about to go rumble in the jungle for the next two days. Stay posted and I'll be back! Don't forget your address if you want me to send you a postcard too.

Last but not least, email me, send me a message, show a homegirl some love. I'm officially homesick. I'll land in LA next wednesday night so Baby be ready for me. I got that thang for ya. HOLLA!

Peruvian midnight

So after the whole day of sitting in the balcony with my dearest computer, my half-brother arrived. His name's Robert. I bet most of ya'll didn't even know I had siblings. Well anyways, so after he arrived we had some bomb ass healthy dinner. It's turkey and some veggies. People eat so healthy and no one seems to ask for second plates, which makes me feel very uncomfortable. Haha fatass. By the way, I haven't seen one overweight person here. NOT ONE. And I'm not over exaggerating. We'll see about tomorrow though.

Me and Robert got so bored at the crib that we were about to blow our brains out, so we decided to roam the city.

My eyes are wandering like a radar as soon as we got in the car. Then TADAAAAAA... i saw this.


An envelope on the wall. This guy is now about to be researched by me. If you don't know why the hell I'm so amazed by an envelope painted on the wall then read the previous blog hun. Lets see how many I'm gonna be able to spot throughout the trip.

So anyways, last post I talked about the four-sided rotating billboard. Now look what I found...


A ROTATING VIRGIN MARY! She's definitely a big deal in South American culture but DANG! I didn't think it was that serious.

Moving along now. We stopped at this pizza alley place where every single restaurant inside is a pizzeria. How the hell do you make business if everyone surrounding you sells the same thing? I shall ask my professor that when I get back. As I walk through the alley there's people in front of restaurants trying to persuade you to eat at their place. Too many aggressive people up in my face. Didn't like it.


"Ay Chico!"



The next thing that amazes me about Peru is that PDA IS A BIG DEAL. Big deal in a good way. I remember I landed on Valentine's day and all I see on the streets were couples smooching everywhere. There's so many parks and so many benches at parks that sometimes I think the government uses Love as a propaganda. How cool is that?! If you don't believe me... Check this shit out.


A humungo making-out statue in the middle of the park right along the shore. HAHAHA. I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it because there were couples just imitating that shit everywhere. People seem to be very affectionate around here and they're really open about it.


My dad said that it's called The Lovers' Park. See, people spend time with their boos here and I guess when things don't work out, their family don't want them to be together, they turn to the left...

And off this bridge they go! Together forever is the slogan.


Crazy. I don't think pictures could describe how tall that dive would be and how rocky the floor on the bottom is. There is NO MAN walking this earth surface that could make me hop off that thing. N-O W-AY.

I'm not gonna bore you with too many scenery picture so NEXT! We arrived at this restaurant right off the cliff on the shore and the first thing I spotted was a water well and wooden structures covered in writing with white-out. Mostly poems and Amor Amor shit. I told you people are affectionate.


I haddddd to get a piece of that ass. So monkeying I go. Cooks was here B! Let it be known.


Oh and someone carved Santa Clause, Jesus, The Devil, a dog, Chicago Bulls' logo, Julius Ceasar, and some other random faces on this tree.


Oh yeah, love me some Inca Kola. This shit beats Coke in Peru by miles. If you've gone to Mario's on Melrose, you'll know the deal.


By the way, even though it's night time, this shit is humid and hot as hell like summer nights in Miami. T-shirts all the way! Today some high fashion ho was hatin' on chicks wearing tee's. Well you'll die in anything else around here ho! I don't do too many logo shit but thanks Nick and Diz for the shirts because this shit is becoming ultra-handy out here.

On a final note before I go to bed. When I say the government supports PDA (Public Display of Affection), I mean it! There's more statues making out. I only caught one flick.



I'm jealous. Goodnight!