{"id":308,"date":"2012-05-20T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=308"},"modified":"2012-06-19T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:20:08","slug":"organized-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2012\/05\/20\/organized-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Organized chaos. This is how I would describe Lima, the capitol city\u00a0of Peru. Millions of people and what feels like zero traffic\u00a0regulation. It was funny watching my classmates cringe on our first\u00a0bus ride as our driver came within inches form the tiny little car in\u00a0front of us. Cars in peru come standard with horn cruise control, I\u00a0think, but I\u2019m glad for it because my gringo self would have been run\u00a0over numerous times otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I made the observation while walking around the metropolitan city that\u00a0there were few smokers. Most buildings and rooms had multiple \u201cNo\u00a0Fumar\u201d (no smoking) signs. When I traveled abroad in the past, smoking\u00a0seemed a much larger part of the culture than it does in Peru. Maybe the high\u00a0price of a pack of cigarettes keeps them less popular, or possibly there is a\u00a0small cultural stigma against it. Either way, I am a fan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few of us grabbed some seviche, a plate full of various raw fish\u00a0caught that morning soaked in lemon juice and covered in a spicy red\u00a0sauce, on our last evening in Lima. While waiting for our table, we\u00a0watched as a group of what looked like city employes getting out of a\u00a0truck to begin road construction. I found it interesting how\u00a0nonchalantly the men worked and spread gravel and tar on the road. My\u00a0assumption was they were repairing a pot whole before they called it a\u00a0day. The 6 of us were seated and ate our feast then made our way down\u00a0stairs to the road again. To all of our surprise, within the hour the\u00a0men had constructed a very large speed bump painted and in use. For\u00a0some reason this was astonishing to all of us, why? Possibly because\u00a0of the positive happy-go-lucky attitude and laughter the men had while\u00a0working, or the lack of bureaucracy they needed to go through to\u00a0complete their task. I am not familiar with road work but was\u00a0impressed and thought I could learn something from their style of\u00a0work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organized chaos. This is how I would describe Lima, the capitol city\u00a0of Peru. Millions of people and what feels like zero traffic\u00a0regulation. It was funny watching my classmates cringe on our first\u00a0bus ride as our driver came within inches form the tiny little car in\u00a0front of us. Cars in peru come standard with horn cruise control, I\u00a0think, but I\u2019m glad for it because my gringo self would have been run\u00a0over numerous times otherwise. I made the observation while walking around the metropolitan city that\u00a0there were few smokers. Most buildings and rooms had multiple \u201cNo\u00a0Fumar\u201d (no smoking) signs. When I traveled … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,156,20],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peru","tag-chaos","tag-peru","tag-seviche"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}