For those of you unawarez---it´s easter. We´ve had the whole week off and I´ve had nothing but fish all week. I´ve asked what the deal is and all i get is that it´s for crist, and if your´re catholic you eat fish. But today I decided to use my college education and well traveled mind with the help of interwebs and investigat. The search was by no means difficult. Google is the home page on this comuter and it turns out that this easter business is pretty globle. Whoda thunk. ps. I´m not this thick just it´s all out of context ya know.
I have been in Lima for the past few days getting tattoed in Mirafloures. This is my first time to visit this section of Lima and WOW!!! It´s almost like Seattle. Supper clean, lots of activities, and GREAT public transportation. Kind of a culture shock in the street signs and lack of sand alone. After a bit of walking and taking it in, a felt like i was taking a visit to the states and what a great break.
The studio i´´m hangen out in these days is really like the states. Supper relaxed people, nice, and VERY talented artests and tattooests. There is also a visiting artisted from get this, Victoria BC. He´s been here 10 days and has very little spanish. This is fun because now i´m the translator and have found proof that I actualy DO speek spanish, few. It´s fun translating for him and chatting with his coworkers. It´s nice to feel relaxed and safe with compleat strangers for the first time in a while. I do trust the people i´m with here in the sticks but it´s still a REALLY poor area of Peru and ya kinda have to always have a shiled up of sorts. Also the conversations are different with people who have attended school.
I am filling up my left thigh with color tattoos and my left with black and white. I was trying to think about focasing on a theme or something organized, looking for patterns in what i already have. Here it is: The right more visualy aggressive and bold. Part of this is the realism of the style and part is the images.
The left is pictures of animals witch at first are cute but on closer examination, they are skellitons. The style is symple and the lines are perfect. I´m REALLY happy how the ink is holding up. And if I put my legs together, tee hee, it looks like my wolf is eating my fish. I love unplaned ´it was ment to happen´ ´what will be will be´type of things. Live your life that way and you´re bound to learn more :)
TRansit: They´ve got this buss system that is great! You buy a rechargable bus card and symply swipe it upon entree. Not unlike our Orca cards in Seattle. The bus goes direct to center of Lima city and over to Mirafloures, probobly more but i have not ridden more. People have been supper helpfull with my sort of lostness on this bus. Feliz!! Fun times meeting new strengers. Sigh. AND Lima is bigger than NYC by the by. I think I get bawlzie points for navigating alone AND in a different language. Prostitutes, killers, and normal folks lookout. (Well I might have madeout with my hot cab driver because my cab fair fell out of my pocket at some point in the evening. When it´s 12am at night I´m all for avoiding conflict)
The whole thing is a good reminder that even though i´m still an islander and fall easly into the safty of small communities, I am perfectly capible of fearless glob trotting elseware.
Well done Gringa!
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