New Mexico Taxi driver, immigrant from Cuba, writes…
“Hey man Peru that’s amazing. Everybody knows Machu Picchu but that country is so wonderful… my aunt worked there for the ICSS…..Piura is so beautiful…and the writers man Vargas Llosa, the pucheros, the little dogs, the puppies, that was his first one before the green tent, War at The end of the World, Conversations in a cathedral.
It must be so lovely in Lima, my aunt stayed in Miraflores
The Manhattan Project that was here, Robert Oppenheimer, he worked here, just about an hour north of here. And Fermi, though I don’t know he actually worked here…Roswell is just out west of here where they caught a spaceship.
Hey have you seen the Nazca lines? Aren’t they something?
Llosa was from Arequipa, they’ve got these white buildings,
Have you tried Peruvian food?”
There’s that Ayacucho, or something like that, allacachas, bulls testicles…the commentator in the Peru game mentioned it….what do you do in Lima teach english
I teach Physics
“Wow man that’s awesome I love physics Mechanics and all that, forces and momentum, it was just electricity I did not get, it was so abstract…
How long have you been here
Four years…it takes time to get things together…reaching out to fulfil my goals