At the end of October, to start our holidays, we left by train to Paris for Kay’s welcome day at INSEAD. Kay was pretty excited and so was I, everything is becoming so real!We spent the whole Saturday touring the campus, listening to sample lectures, attending information sessions, and most importantly, meeting Kay’s future classmates and their partners!Everyone was very friendly and engaging and Kay is really looking forward to what the next twelve months will bring. Only two more weeks until he leaves!

After the cocktail event on Saturday, we took a bus to the station and rode back to Paris with several others. They all got a kick out of our huge backpacking backpacks that we had prepared for Peru. It sure was strange to carry my pack in heels. Not really as comfortable as big hiking boots…

Before we left for France, I had looked up if there were any classmates in Lima, and sure enough there was one living there and another traveling around Peru at the same time as us, so we met the one living in Lima the same night we got into Lima from our 12 hour flight.We were a little tired, maybe Kay more so, but it was a lot of fun to meet and get some local tips on what to eat. We also enjoyed our first pisco sours of the trip.The guy traveling around Peru was too tired to stay up and meet us when we arrived in Lima, but we managed to catch him in Cusco the day we got back from our five-day trek to Machu Picchu. We were also pretty tired then after having trekked for so many days, but we were starting to get used to go-go-going with little energy and a lot of things to see and do.I ended up keeping up the same pace for my trip to Hong Kong afterward, but now back in Zurich, I feel pretty tired out after a month of traveling!

Still, I look forward to visiting Kay next year at school and spending more time with the other students we met in Paris.