I´ve been behind as usual with blogging. Internet has been limited and with no laptop, it makes it a mission to get things done online. I do have a lot to say and likely will back date a bunch of posts on what I´ve done lately.
I´m coming home! I´ve booked my flight home for April 8th out of Lima. Why? First of all it´s still cold at home so I wan´t to get back when its warmer. And well Lima is the cheapest city to leave from between Quito or Bogota. Another thing is I´ve totally ran out of money. Since I´m out of money and I still got a month left, I need to be super frugal. What I´ll be doing then is staying in one place for awhile instead of always traveling. Traveling between cities costs more then staying in the same city. I wanted to learn another skill in my travels as well. Can´t really surf on the east cost of the states so I decided to pick up surfing. I love the water so it makes sense. I´m in Moncora, Peru for this. The very north part of Peru. I´m only about an hour away from Ecuador. Still not sure how long I´m staying but I want to get this whole surfing thing down pretty well.
Mancora is chilled out. Staying in Loki Hostel at the moment. Not a whole lot to do besides enjoy the beach life of surf, swim, and drink. I don´t mind it at all. This is what I´m looking to do anyway. Just hang out before I need to get home and do a bit of working. I´ve taken my first surfing lesson yesterday. Not too bad really. I got up on the board on my first wave and rode nearly the entire way. Balancing is easy for me. I find the hardest part is actually getting to the wave in the first place. Having to center myself on the board and swim all the way is pretty tiring. The waves here are quite strong and knock you down and confuse you quick. The instructor seemed pissed I could center myself on the board correctly. Well I think I´m getting the hang of it and now that I got the basics down, I´m going to just rent the board itself and go out on my own this time.
Met a pretty cool Argentinian guy from Corboda. Been hanging out with him the past few days. Brings me back to my time in Argentina. He´s been trying to get me to come with him to Ecuador but I´m pretty determined on staying for surfing. Plus I have no money.Hopefully meet up with him again on my next visit to Argentina.
My next biggest news is I´m going back to China. I simply fell in love with that country. I have yet to book all the arrangements but I´m made up my mind on going for sure. This time for a different purpose though. I´ll be teaching english for 5 months starting in August. It´s an intern program with i-to-i and will be receiving my TEFL degree I´ve been aiming for awhile now. The plan is to work for a few months before going to get some money together. I don´t really have many bills or anything to pay for so it´ll be easy.
It´s 10am, sweating like crazy, sunburned, and ready to hit the waves. Been on for an hour with my 15-minute limit most hostels jokingly give you with someone stalking waiting to use the computer. I´ll back date and make more posts soon.
Can´t wait to see my family and friends back at home!













