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Céline & Yannick in Peru

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19 août 2007

Earthquake replicas

Since wednesday, and as stated in the first article about the earthquake, we've had to bear the regular replicas (secondary waves). I thought Friday night would be the last big one, but I've just felt a big one (must have been 5.5 at epicentre) which...
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18 août 2007

Soon going to Arequipa

Soon going to Arequipa
We've been invited to the wedding of my good friend Holmi and her soon-to-be husband Juan Carlos. It's an honour to have the opportunity to attend a peruvian wedding ceremony and reception, even if it is not happening in a church (that will be next year)....
18 août 2007

New fruit

New fruit
It had been a while since we'd posted about the weird food we find here in Peru. Today we tried some nísperos, which are small fruits between prunes and grapes. I was told to peel the yellow skin off, and eat only the juicy firm whitish flesh. It tastes...
18 août 2007

Photos

Photos
Here are some photos of the appartment after the earthquake. Not very exciting I'm afraid, just some open drawers and cupboard doors and our TV on the floor. Also, for photos of the Cordon Bleu cooking class I took (4 lessons of 3 hours each) please go...
18 août 2007

Un día de trabajo sin trabajo

Un día de trabajo sin trabajo
Last Friday was Golder's 10th anniversay and we were all invited (attendance compulsory) to an integration event, because so many people have joined the Lima office in the last weeks/months. This was a gymkana, sort of mini tournament / olympic game sort...
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18 août 2007

Back from Cañete-Melcho

I have been to the site of Pampa Melchorita to monitor inclinometers this Monday for 3 days and had returned just before the earthquake. I was filling in for a colleague who was on holiday and decided to return to Lima on the Wednesday because we were...
16 août 2007

The day after the earthquake

Everyone is still talking about yesterday's earthquake, especially us newbies who had never experienced a seism. For those who haven't had the whole story, let's go through the events how we lived them. 4pm - I leave the site of Pampa Melchorita, 20km...
15 août 2007

Earthquake

Hello world. I have just come back from 3 days on site today and during our quechua lesson, about 7-8pm, we lived through our first earthquake. We were on the 11th floor of a 12th floor building, it shook long and hard and we were both very scared and...
6 août 2007

An extreme weekend for Celine, but Paddington Bear is here to cheer her up

An extreme weekend for Celine, but Paddington Bear is here to cheer her up
It was both a very good and very bad weekend for me. Very bad because I had a big blues crisis on Saturday and felt like everything was crap in Darkest Peru (I started reading the book of Paddington Bear again to cheer me up, a kind goodbye gift from...
4 août 2007

Where we've both been so far

Where we've both been so far
We've done a little game to see how much of the world we've both seen. The first map is mine, the second is Yannick's. Céline visited 32 countries (14%). Yannick visited 14 countries (6%). To get your own map, click here :-)
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