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How could an idea from three guys change my life?
APU is a quecha word (inca's language) that means 2
concepts in just 1 word:
So the APU was something like the god that protected
the people in the town. That is what we are
trying to do with you guys: Helping our
friend giving information, creating an international
family in our houses, organizing activities so that
you can adapt easier to our country, and creating
friendships for the long term.
I started running APU in the 2001 with two of my best friends:
Javier Loyola (El bat) and Pablo Oblitas (Benji). We
were finishing our time in AIESEC, so after a
brainstorming about how we can keep getting to know people
from around the world, we decided to run a student
house in Miraflores, and we rented the first house
(APU1) in february 2001. Now, we have taken
different paths: Benji is living in Europe after finishing school
in Maastricht, and Bat finished school in Peru and
he is working for a Swiss International Company in
Lima.
So the house that started with only 9 people, is now a
student houses network that is receiving more than
80 new friends every year, nice eh! ;)
I believe that APU is more than its houses. In my
mind, we are doing APU in any camping, any party,
any trip, when I can see people interacting and
laughing; organizing parties in Europe, 2 or 3 years
after their time in APU.
We are doing APU when someone told me that somebody
who lived in APU got married and people who lived
together in APU were present in the ceremony, or when
somebody is traveling and met people who lived in
APU before, and go to a bar to drink a beer and have
fun.
I look at all these years with APU and remember all
the people, amazing people, that I met; and I
realize that I'm lucky because I'm living my life on
the way that I always wanted to live it: Filling my
life with great moments with amazing people.
Oh well! I wrote too much, but if you want to know
more about APU, as soon as you are in Lima we can go
to drink a coffee, or a beer ;) and I would love to
tell you more about this crazy 8-year-aventure called APU!
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Yours, |
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Qcha (Luis Eduardo Falcón)
APU PERU Founder |
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