You know you're a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru when:

- You come home and find a plastic bag of live pigeons in your kitchen

- When you come home later you find feathers from those same pigeons all over the kitchen

- And the next time you come home you’re given a piping hot bowl of pigeon soup- and you eat it.

- Dog bites are common

- It takes 17.5 forms to get anything done

- Having water in your house (let alone a bathroom) is a privilege

- You haul chicken poop around in little bags then precede to drink fermented corn with your unwashed hands, and enjoy it

- Turkey attacks are also common

- Your blonde hair suddenly makes you the most interesting person in the world

- Someone asks if you are so white because you bathe with bleach (silly people I don't bathe)

More to come.

Oh and here's some more pics of the APEC conference

The most important part of any conference is they give you something to eat

Look at me being all happy and formal, it didn't last long

Don't we look important- we're not really