So I am sitting here on our last day on the trip and I just cant believe it is almost over. The last couple of weeks have been awesome. I am staying with my host mom, Alicia, who is a 63 yr old widow who is crazy! She is one of the coolest women I have ever met. She has a pool, treats us like gold, and cooks like you wouldnt believe. We have been traveling around Cuernavaca and neighboring towns for the past couple of weeks. We have visited pyramids, Myan ruins, and the Silver Capital of the World to [View Full Entry]

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I am now in the final country of my trip! It has gone by so fast, but it has been really amazing. We stopped in Costa Rica on the way here, but unfortunately we never left the airport :( Then we were off to Mexico City. In case you are not aware, this is the second biggest city in the world. Kind of a big deal. It is way prettier than I expected! We went to a famous person´s old house for lunch the other day and then had a city tour. We went to a bunch of museums, art galleries [View Full Entry]

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So I just got back from the rainforest and let me tell you what, that was the most amazing experience of my life. Though the Inca Trail was pretty awesome this was something I could never match. It rained ALOT but it was so much fun. I guess thats how it got its name :) The first day we rode on a bus for hours and arrived at some nice bungalows with mosquito nets over our beds..never a good sign, but they worked well. The next day we took some sweet boats for HOURS and saw tons of birds, monkeys and [View Full Entry]

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So we just got back from hiking the Inca Trail and let me tell you, that was the hardest and best thing that I have ever done. This was pretty much the jist of the first day: 5:30 AM-Down in the lobby decked out in my sweet hiking outfit, lookin pretty wonderful..haha 6:00 AM-Supposed to be on the bus 6:30 AM-Bus finally gets there and we head out 6:45 AM-The company tells us that they forgot to tell us to bring our passports and IDs..gotta go back to the hotel to get them from the luggage that is totally packed up [View Full Entry]

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So I´m in Cusco and it has been pretty fun so far. We leave on Tuesday for the INca Trail, which should be AMAZING!!! We have done some cool stuff here and have seen tons of Inca Ruins, etc. We have been playing some basketball and eating some guinea pig, too! It´s really not as bad as it sounds...but Ive got pics. Kinda tastes like chicken. ANyways, I´m gonna be out of contact for a few days and just wanted to write and let everyone know that its pretty sweet down here! Miss ya all tons and Ill see ya in [View Full Entry]

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So I am now sitting in Peru...again. We just left Maceio yesterday and Im really sad about it. I absolutely loved every minute we had there. Our hotel was called Hotel Beautiful Beach if that tells you anything. We were ON the beach and it was gorgeous. I played sand volleyball every single day and my skin is so dark that I looked Brazilian by the end of the time there. We got to be there for the political campaigning and lots of other activities. Once Dr. Good came we all got on a big boat and went out to explore [View Full Entry]

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So this is going to be EXTREMELY short, but Brazil is amazing. It is really beautiful and everyone here just does pretty much whatever they want. Yesterday we went and played sand volleyball and I felt a little overdressed considering I had a swim suit that covered my entire butt. haha. We have gone to tons of great places and met some really nice people. We went to the presidential palace, house of the senate, congress, house of representatives and all kinds of places. We are staying in a youth hostel that is not exactly four star, but we can deal [View Full Entry]

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We´re in Lima now and it´s pretty great so far. We are only going to be here for a few days, but we are coming back later in the trip. We had a city tour today and realized that this is pretty much the United States in this part of Peru. We actually got real cultural and went to Hooters for lunch....weird, I know. It is really beautiful here and the ocean is gorgeous. The flight went well..I´m pretty much an expert now :) Saying goodbye to my host family was kind of hard, but I was excited to move on [View Full Entry]

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So we are finishing up our last week in Ecuador ;( It has been a lot of fun so far. I haven´t written one of these for a while, so I´ll try and remember what has happened. We have gone on several tours of Inca ruins, churches and museums in the area. Not super exciting, but interesting in it´s own way I guess. My host family is opening up a little more and they are a lot of fun. It´s nice to see a couple that obviously really loves each other and their little baby. We met our "grandparents" the other [View Full Entry]

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The Fam So we just spent our first night with our host families and mine is wonderful. It was a little awkward because we all got in a line and walked into a huge room where they called out our name and our parents came up to get us with flowers for us. We kind of felt like we were being auctioned off, but our parents are really nice. My mom, as I said before, is only 20, but she is very welcoming. She knows some english, which is also very helpful. I absolutely love our father because he´s really goofy. [View Full Entry]

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