And so 'Have a nice evening, Europe, wherever you are'...

You know it very well when you're at your wit’s end. Since I came to Peru I've been there more times than I can remember. Right now, for instance, it's 10:21 in the morning on a Saturday and I have been woken up before 9 by the shouting neighbours, a screaming kid, their regaetton music and all - the morning seems to be their favourite past time when their agitation it’s at its highest.

Everything was going fine- I had a new job which I enjoy thoroughly, I had asked the landlady to bring some strong disinfectant to pour down the drain in both bathrooms to get rid of the stench (only for a few days and then it will come back surely), and I had high hopes of getting cable television streaming through my laptop (that meaning I wouldn't have to buy a TV). Today however, things seem to have got back to normal as the neighbours are driving me mad as ever and the internet guy can't get the right device to plug into my laptop. Or maybe he just can’t be bothered...

Yes, that’s it: these people just can't be bothered. Just as they don’t capitalize the letters at the beginning of their sentences when they write (and not type ‘cause most of us can’t be bothered to capitalize letters when we type either). But most people here don't care and don't know any better. I don't know how else to put it, as I have never seen people try less and hassle more. These most people all want something from you even if they don't know what it is, but most times this is just money. You show up and simply by showing up you get ripped off. It's happened to me in Mollendo at the seaside, it's happened at the market, it's happening with the landlady, it's just happening.....

 One needs to push and ask, and ask, and ask again in order to get anything done. There's no people getting things done just because things need to get done...eventually. Here nothing seems to make a difference as these most people all just go on minding their own little business (which I still haven't been able to figure what it is as it seems to be the littlest of businesses) in what I have come to describe as a ''suspended time''. I can't figure out what it is that they do, what occupies their time. Except playing loud crappy music, driving Ticos for taxis and beeping their horn at every passerby, shouting out their merchandise everywhere, trying to chat up every passing foreign girl, and just creating a lot of loud needless commotion, what is it that these most people do???
 
Then you ask why is it that do I love my peace and quiet so much and why am I so desperate for a TV? ‘Cause I have no ‘social skills’, that’s why. Because I can’t have a conversation about peanuts or waxing for more than 5 minutes without going nuts and looking for something more meaningful to talk about in any language. And that’s tiring for both me and my listener as it kinda always turns out to be a listener and I. That or I simply ask a lot of questions. What else can I do??? Peanuts are for the English classes. My English classes, anyway. Besides, I have a latino internet, i.e. a temperamental one, I can’t really stream anything for too long and downloading takes forever. I need someone to talk to me too, and who else can tell me more things about Peru than Mr Discovery (Channel in case you were still doubting)???

I came here hoping to improve my Spanish, thinking for some reason that being the second largest city in the country with almost 1 million inhabitants would kinda bring with it the guarantee of some interesting cultured people. Fat chance lol. At this point people who have an opinion or so would do. How naive can I be really? I have landed on the moon, on a different planet where the mercantile hands of the little people handle it all. That's it in essence. Maybe that’s what it should all be about. I’m off to suspend myself one way or another. I’ll find some nothing to do. I’ll simply NOT do anything. Not be a human doing just a human being. I’ll just be...