Changing direction

It's been a long time since the last time I wrote, lots of things have happened and I don't know where to begin to tell the story, or even if it's a story worth telling. I travelled to Puno, Lake Titicaca, La Paz and Arequipa with Simone, I quit my job, I'm about to start a new one--or if all goes well two new ones.

It took me over a month to begin to realise that Maricarmen had set up the volunteer project as a business, and about another month to realise I wasn't gonna change her or the way she ran things. It took me 2 days since I got back to Cusco from Bolivia to move out of her house (she told me to leave via email while I was travelling, and delighted my travel with daily rude emails), find a flat I'll share with 4 other people, and find 2 other paid jobs in Cusco.

I left the job because Maricarmen kept lying to me about the budget and the expenses. The final straw was after Crisitna came from Bolivia to see our project, and her boss Nick in London decided they'd send us volunteers but they wanted to see monthly budget report, and Maricarmen said this organization is not giving us any gifts and there is no reason why we should show them anything. I could go on and on abuot how manipulative she is, how she told me she knows I'm having a relationship with Simone and she is just waiting for proof to fire me, bacause it is completely unprofessional and (this is the best part!) I should ask my mother if it's professional to have a relationship with someone you work with (my parents met at work)...also, the quality of my work is very low considering I have a masters degree (absolutely true: how could I accept to work for someone who refused to show me a project description or a budget report and never gave me a contract). And here comes my favourite part...I came here to teach and not to learn, with the typical superiority of Europeans, while if she went to Europe she'd know how to work because she's travelled there, but she knows she'd be looked down upon like all Latinos in Europe (DEJA VU!!! I think I've heard something like that before!).