March 23 - Harmeet Singh Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember have been safely released in Baghdad.

There are some things about Lima that I will not be sorry to leave. The traffic is shocking. If the NZ police were here, they would double the surplus in a day with the tickets that could be issued here under NZ law. Cars don’t need registration. Traffic lights and pedestrian crossings are a rough guideline, and conversations with horns occur every day. You flag down buses, and you don’t need to flag down taxis, they stop for you because taxi drivers always assume that Gringas (white girls) need taxis.

I am still living in La Molina and enjoying myself greatly! I had better talk about La Molina. La Molina is probably one of the safest places in Lima. It is quiet, secure and all of it looks pretty much the same- doors made of beautiful woods, carefully tended green grass and checkpoints seemingly everywhere.

Holas from La Molina, Lima. I am officially studying Spanish here at the moment, but I felt a bit unwell at Breakfast… turns out that over here, not eating means that you are pretty sick! In Wellington I would have gone to Uni anyway.

I am finally in Peru and I am really enjoying it. Lima is a city that is covered by smog. Seeing the sky is impossible. I have seen the plaza del armas, very nice part and numerous shanty towns. I have seen street kids sifting through rubbish.

By Jenah Shaw. Hoodies or miniskirts, ugg boots or sport shoes – whatever your wardrobe looks like, there’s no denying that we carry a sense of self-expression in our clothes, something to give the world a sense of “us”.