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Feliz Cumpleaños: The Legend of Peru

It’s my second birthday in Peru. Getting sick after? I must be getting old.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

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Wasn't in Australia two weeks when I had a roo resting on the knee

Books. Physical reminders that I too have a story to tell.

While searching through my old belongings recently I found this...the short story published. I think the editors amd my lecturers were more aware of what I wrote than what I did, of a boy's hero who lived bitter and resentfully. I wasn't trying to be smart or clever. I just wrote amd I guess I didn't overthink. Now I might think "ooh too much toxic masculinity."

Friday night #funmail is minigolf...in the dark...with dinosaurs!

So a colleague has very very kindly lent me his car. Apparently i have two kids and a partner now. #myfamily

Flashback again. Hiking up and out of the #colcacanyon. All before breakfast. It was cold until we hiked. Then the sweat poured down my back only to cool me down again. I like being back. Stability is sweet. But man...these were the days. May there be plenty more of them.

Flashback. Peru is a dream sometimes.

On these chilly #qld mornings I am glad to be wearing a bit of #peru. Oh crap! It's state of origin morning. I can't be wearing blue. 😱

It is indistinguishable from the distance, but what this is, is the Qld Premier having a chat with a family that represents 3 generations of farmers. They grow melons, capsicums and zucchinis.

Beers over a campfire. The great Aussie tradition

Silencio en el monasterio, por favor. I was just looking at photos of my #laketiticaca #Puno, and first visit to #Arequipa. It has been 2 months since I left Peru and I have been so busy at work trying to get my life sorted; being single again, no car, finding a job, finding a place to live, and coming back across the world with $1000 to make the adjustment. I haven't had time to think and look back, or reflect except to realise how blessed I am, having figured my way through a lot of it, with support. I am already tired. I am challenged at work, having moved to a new city. When this photo was taken, I had travelled a week and was rushing up north to see my awesome girlfriend for Valentimes Day. I was exhausted after suffering a few days of altitude sickness and didn't really recover by the time I was in Arequipa and my first impression of the place wasn't a good one. But now I look at the pics and I think "how bloody lucky was I? How bloody lucky am I now?" I feel I can take on the world. Because I kind of did in a way. But I know, too, that I need grounding again.

I see a soft beauty in this. Not darkness. But there is something different to how it was in Peru, where families would gather on Sundays and children would play as parents mourned.

Making friends with other people's pets.

A #mural in Bundy

Some evenings after work you just need to chill on the couch to watch Dragon Ball super.

Just when i think I am done with travelling, here I am in beautiful #mooloolaba .

It is a very blurred photo, I know, but it's my only one with Simon, my Peruvian landlord of 8 months. His wife Milda is taking the photo. They speak almost no English but are the sweetest couple. They really did their best to help me. At first we understood nothing and they were really perplexed at how little Spanish I spoke. When Spanish is your entire world, and always was, to witness someone so close in your life who has no concept of it is truly astonishing. Every day after I returned from work exhausted, about to walk up the stairs to my room, Milda would say in her light musical voice "good afternoon, teacher!" And I knew she would put in the effort to talk English. But by the end, in this photo, Simon and I could say goodbye and to take care and show by our actions that we would miss each other. They did do a lot for me, even in the times I thought I barely had anybody.

The #timtam slam

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