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I am finally going to Peru!  I have been dreaming of this since I was a little child!

My family (on my father’s side) has relatives living here.  While I always wanted to get away from the busy life in Miami, I was never able to do so until recently.  I was always working a dead-end, 9 to 5 job and felt really unappreciated.  My boss, Sandy, was always asking me to do special projects and stay late.   Things like extra filing of papers, generating extra reports, talking to clients after evening hours, etc.  She wouldn’t even pay me any overtime. 

Regardless, I had saved up enough money and decided to go back to school.  The economy is not doing so well anyway and Ifigured she probably would have just gotten rid of me due to save on payroll.  You should have seen the expression on her face when I gave my two weeks notice.  She actually begged and pleaded for me not to leave and said I was one of her hardest workers.  She even offered me a small raise (cheapskate, it was only 20 cents more an hour).  By then, it was too late.  I had already made my plans to tour Latin America.

What I really wanted to do was to hike and travel over Peru and see all of the wondeful things that it has to offer.  The people, the sights, the smells.  It looked like eveyrthing I wanted.  I like souvenirs and am always thinking of things to bring back to my family and friends.  It only seemed natural that I would bring back some memories to my family and friends. 

I’ll post more later on.