Time for a round up, it’s week four back in Moro and one week left for my departure back to good old Europe.
1. I’ve been thinking. Right, my written information here was scarce, but I was posting almost regularely, so I can go home with a good consciousness – But with the motivation to do it better in future. Hey, nobody’s a born foreign correspondent.
2. I’ve travelled to Lima for some matters, the second time so far. I don’t like the city and it seems nobody does. It’s big, raunchy megacity, miles of slum in the outskirts and super rich quarters downtown. Moro doesn’t look very different from the slums in Lima (Never been inside the slums, to be frank), but what makes things worse in Lima are the business buildings and golf clubs in San Isidro and other quarters. Moro’s state and the state of the villages I’ve been working in is sad and lamentable. The contrast in Lima is a scandal.
2. I’ve been sick, as most of my dear readers have guessed after my last post. An evil flu has taken over my body. For almost exactly a week now, I’ve spent at least 20 hours a day sleeping and sweating in bed. As always, it’s only my fault. Shouldn’t have gone up to Pisha on Friday and everything would have been nice, but, I would not have heard the remarkable news of point 3. It was worth the pain of being ill. And I’ve got a whole bunch of anti-flu recipes in my pocket I can pass on to my mates in Europa, when they happen to be ill.
3. Pisha has got a radio station! I met my friend Daniel “El Gringo” from Pichiú in Pisha, the village farther above in the valley who’s signed a contract with the municipality of Pamparomas to be the radio speaker of the newly established Radio Pisha.
The transmitter has got 50 Watt and would be reasonably strong, but they still need an antenna. The signal reaches Pichiú and Huascar so far – two neighbouring villages – The aim is to reach as far as Moro. If you’ve got an old radio antenna in your den and are willing to let it, let me know. Right now Daniel is working from 4AM to 8 AM and 6PM to 10PM, according to electricity schedule. The program includes music, greetings and messages for the whole valley. Bigger productions, such as interviews and news coverages are planned.
4. The ethnologik is out, everything’s about power this time. Unfortunately, an article about the regional elections written by my humble self didn’t make it, due to violation of a deadline, which I couldn’t keep due me being in the Atacama desert at the time. Anyway, It’s a great edition, go, buy, read, discuss and get wiser.
5. I’m getting on quite well with me research paper. I’m working out the disposition. I won’t start writing until I’ll be back in Europe. I know I’ll get stuck in the “Thanks to…” section anyway, so I can waste my time with that back home and not here.
