little letters.

dear little bugs at machu picchu,

why did you have to bite my legs? i do not appreciate it.

dear skype,

thank you for being so awesome and allowing me to stay in touch with family and friends.

dear gelato place in Plaza San Miguel,

you have such delicious gelato. i’m glad that i have finally figured out that by buying a cone instead of a cup i get more yummy goodness for s/. 0.50 less.

dear cusco,

you are absolutely beautiful.

dear facebook,

while I appreciate all the help keeping in contact with friends and family, i feel we may be spending too much time together.

dear sun,

please come out more in lima, i really do miss you.

dear mom and dad,

i miss you both terribly. you two are amazing and i’ve learned so much from the both of you.

dear micro number 35,

i really wish you had a route that avoided Javier Prado and Aviación. that would save me a LOT of time.

dear deer number 14,

shame on you if you fool me once.

shame on me if you fool me twice.

dear movistar,

please stop sending me all those silly promotional text messages.

i get all excited only to be disappointed.

i did not miss my favorite band nor do i need relationship advice.

dear micro drivers,

please take it easy going over those speed bumps.

dear cobradores,

there is no possible way that i can avanzar. perhaps you should stop letting people get on the micro.

dear supermarkets in lima,

i really don’t think that it is a good idea to sell eggs in a bag. seems to me that they would be easily broken, but what do i know?

dear gordon college,

i miss you a lot more than i thought i would. but this is good because now i really do appreciate everything you’ve done for me.

dear municipalidad de lima,

i would like to kindly inform you that while you hose down the plants and trees with giant firefighter-like hoses at night (watering mostly pavement) there are people living in the city who do not have running water in their house. something just doesn’t seem right with this picture. get on that please.

dear iTunes,

please start offering better free downloads. and put songs back to $ .99 cents. enough with this $1.29 crap.

dear lady that i often see on my micro,

i really hope one day i get up enough guts to actually talk to you because you seem like a really nice person.

dear lolcats,

you never cease to make me laugh.

thanks.

dear professors here in peru,

sorry i’ve been skipping class lately. i’ll try to be a better student.

dear tijuana,

i love you for the beauty that i’ve seen the midst of your brokenness

dear ricky,

i miss you. you are most definitely coming back to peru with me in august.

xoxo

abby