America : Kalamazoo

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This is a post for my travel in America for a conference in Kalamazoo that took place in July 22 to 28 2009.
After the conference I spend a week more visiting Chicago. The first post for this chapter of the travel section can be find here. During the week-end of the conference I spend my time visiting Kalamazoo and going to the festival "the taste of Kalamazoo" where I tasted delicious Malaysian food. I also visited a free museum about America in the sixties and earlier, which had some science sections where kids were doing experiments and a section about Japan.

Yes in the museum I also took the catbus and met Totoro.

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"Attic Mirror", end

So last night I was at work on Attic Mirror again. The end seemed so close that I really wanted to write regularly to get to it as soon as possible. I didn't really imagine that I was that close to the end and that I was going to finish that night. I stayed at home on purpose to be away of internet to be able to work more on my writing and on my kanjis. I also find it easier not to oversleep on the 4am nap (I'm polyphasic again) when I'm concentrating on some writing or reading during the time before and that my computer is just ready to use.
So I did my kanjis first and then started to write. I wrote until 4.30am, went to bed and got up at 5am when I started to write again. At 6.30am, the novel was finished with 4959 words more.
I'll probably have to increase the size of some scenes in the book during the editting process but I'm pretty happy with the result so far.
I'll have to start working on a new writing project pretty soon because I already miss my characters.
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Peru : Last day in Peru

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For our last day in Peru, we decided to go to Pachacamac which is an archeological site in the south of Lima. We knew which buses we needed to take to go there. What we didn't know is that it's absolutely huge and that once again we were going to get kind of lost.
We took several buses to get there, hopefully the people in the bus were really helpful, telling us when to get down and which was the next buses to take.
We arrived a bit further than Pachacamac archeological site to go to a place where we were suppose to see horses first. But it was a Sunday and everything was closed. We continued to walk anyway and cross the panamerican road to go to the Pacific ocean. There were a lot of birds there and big waves.
Then we turned back to the archeological site and visited the temple of the sun. I was very lucky because I could enter for free with my expired student card.
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"Attic Mirror", part 11

So last night I was on polyphasic sleep again. I got back to it for almost two weeks now I guess, maybe more, I don't remember really my notion of time is a bit confused at the moment. Anyway last night I started to write this new part of Attic Mirror and I really hope that you will enjoy it. I really want to finish before the end of the month because I will be starting a new challenge on the first of April, but I'll tell you all about it in due time. So you can be expecting to see a lot more coming during the week, except if I oversleep but I'll try not to.
For the moment I'll let you enjoy the novel.
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Peru : Back to Lima

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We went back to Lima the next day. It took us about a day to get there and we went to the same host again.
She had an other couch surfer at that time which was pretty cool.
The next day, we were trying to go somewhere (I don't remember where exactly) but we didn't managed to and ended up walking in the city center of Lima again and in a park. That was funny to see Christmas decorations in the middle of the summer.
In the evening we had a couch surfing party which was, my first couch surfing party. Too bad that my Spanish was really and still is really limited.

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Peru : Cuzco's archeological sites

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We spend the next day sleeping, we just went out for dinner and walking was kind of painful. Funny how we always need an extremely sportive day during our holidays.
The next day we decided to go visit the different archeological sites around Cuzco. We took a bus tour for that, which is the only bus tour we had ever taken during our trip but that was still cool.
The tour started in the Inca Museum which is a colonial mansion build on the old Qorikancha Inca temple of the sun.
We then went to Sacsahuamán  the Temple of thunder which belong to UNESCO World Heritage. The guide explained us that the local theory of the construction of the temple is that the Inca moved stones from far away and where using some vegetation substance to shape the stones to have them fit perfectly. However those plants are nowhere to be found. The scientists think that the stone have never been move.
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived they thought that the temple was a fortress and decided to fight with their guns against the Inca's arrow. They obviously won and decided to show their power by forbidding to remove the corpses of the dead from where they had fallen. That's why the field is call as well, "the place where the condors are satisfied."
We then went to Pacaritambo on Tambotoco Hill, where a water for long life is always pouring. The legend says that there is a lake in the cave behind. 
We then went to Q'enco which is a sort of tomb where the Inca were proceeding to sacrifices.
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"Attic Mirror", part 10

Here is the last part of Attic Mirror. I'm writing slowly but I'm still writing. I can see the end of Attic Mirror coming, you will surely have more surprises reading it. I'm also thinking and dreaming a lot about more novels especially something that will fit with the new ending of Demon Soul as a sort of sequel in a sense even if the main characters will be different.
I hope you will enjoy knowing more about one of the characters that already appeared a few time in previous parts of Attic Mirror. Even if he is a secondary character, I worked so much on Antoine's background story (still not written and not planed on being written) that he feels to me like a main character. I hope to see more of him in the future, maybe in other stories even if for the moment I don't have ideas about it. He is a bit like the independent character that will appear at some point just because he feels like it.
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