Sometime late last summer, I began to subscribe to the “Living in Peru” newsletter for expatriates. I knew that we were thinking of spending time in Peru for my disseration and wanted to start getting my head around how we would do it. I used the classifieds, newsgroups, and listservs available to subscribers to find the house we’re renting, our childcare, and more. <\/p>\n
A little more than a month ago, subscribers were asked to participate in a survey about the newsletter because they wanted feedback from readers. I participated. Like many surveys, there was the draw of a “give-away” associated with participation, and like most times I do surveys, I didn’t think anything of it. (Side note: as a social scientist, I always try to participate in surveys when asked. I feel it is my professional duty!)<\/p>\n
Bottom line: I won a weekend stay at Hotel Laguna Seca<\/a> in Cajamarca<\/a>, Peru!<\/p>\n We’re still trying to get our head around the whole thing. What a surprise! The tickets are about $100\/each (not sure yet about the cost of Will’s ticket) to fly to Cajamarca (it’s about 500 miles north of Lima, in the Northern Andes) but it’s a great opportunity and at least the hotel (and breakfast) are free! Wow — what a surprise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometime late last summer, I began to subscribe to the “Living in Peru” newsletter for expatriates. I knew that we were thinking of spending time in Peru for my disseration and wanted to start getting my head around how we would do it. I used the classifieds, newsgroups, and listservs available to subscribers to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}