June 15th, 2011

June 15th, 2011

            Today after class Monica was waiting at Amouta to talk with us and help us go to the agencies and nail down the details of our Inca Jungle trek. Details have been sketchy, so I was glad to have Monica come help us iron out the plans. We had all the people who were planning to go meet at McDonalds so we could go to the agency we had originally decided to go with. During the break between classes today, Scott and Cara had gone to the agency to put a deposit on our trip, which I was skeptical and uneasy about, but I couldn’t speak for twelve other people. Me went to the first agency with Monica and she was not too happy with the safety of the trip and didn’t seem to trust the lady in charge, so she suggested we go to another agency across the plaza that Patty from Amouta said was trustworthy. We ultimately decided that the second agency was far, far better than the first one and we decided we would go with them. But now we needed to go fight with the first agency to get our deposit back. The lady was horribly nasty to Monica when she told them we intended on getting our money back, so Monica headed to the tourist police to help us. In the meantime, Klevis took matters into his own hands after getting the deposit receipt from Scott and went into the agency to have a word with the lady. He was successful. His skillful way with words got us back all our pooled money for the deposit, aside from about 100 soles, and since Cara had fronted the money for the deposit, we all threw her 5 US dollars to cover that lost money. I’m very confident that the agency we decided to go with was far better than the original for so many reasons. And the four day trek would only cost us 100 US dollars, with meals and white water rafting included.

            After the long day of nailing down our hike plans, me and Brielle went home for dinner, strange as usual, and then went to another discussion session at Amouta. Tonight we were discussing laws with Henry, whereas yesterday we had discussed governmental history with Monica. The discussions were valuable, interesting, and insightful. After the discussions let out, it was time for Indigo, and then bed because we had to be at the Plaza de Armas at 6:30am the next morning for our trek