Blogs from Miraflores, Lima, Lima, Peru, South America - page 54

people are dropping like flies here....i woke up today at 6:45 because the beginners can go to school early to get help from our teacher, she calls at 7 to say that she doesnt feel well. so i get to school at 9 and 6 people are missing becasue they are eaither vomiting or have a cold. my teacher then cancels class and moves our test to friday which is good because i havent started studying, he gives us a study guide tomorrow so i should be ok. then we had an hour until lunch which was optional. so i ran home and brought my close to the lavanderia where they wash my clothes same day for 3soles per kilo (i paid 8 american dollars) ran back to school and i ate lunch...i ate raw chicken ... read more

today was a little boring. i was absolutely exhausted in spanish class. the teacher would ask me a question and i would be like...please ask someone else i cant think this morning i just need a break! our history lecture was very interesting! we had a guest speaker that is an expert on the shining path. the shining path is a terrorist organization that got a group of people together to try and change peru through terrorism and violence. this event in history went from 1980 to 1992. abigael guzman is in jail till this day because peruvians do not believe in the death penalty. he killed over 40,000 innocent people. 75% were illiterate, indigenous people that mostly spoke quencua (not spanish: an inca language) and all of the supporters were mostly women and children and ... read more

sorry i didnt get a chance to update last night. we went salsa dancing. well we bought a lesson. it was fun...hard though. watch out, one more of those classes and ill be on dancing with the stars! jk. on the 4th, we had a long long long day....we walked and walked and walked. yesterday we took a bus to the city center and we ate lunch at the famous hotel bolivar. it is like the breakers of lima. we saw miss peru of 2005 or 2004 dont really remember. then we walked through the ghetto and we took a tour through the old san marcos college. it was very pretty. it was used for munks to study and it is the oldest university in both south and north america. then we went to the city ... read more

We woke up early, because our flight was at 5:45. Sally was very sick, and Len wasn't feeling much better. We discussed rescheduling our flight and staying in bed another day, but we were anxious to get home. We got to the airport, bought some imodium, and got on the plane. Luckily, it wasn't full, so we had extra room where Sally could lie down. The first leg of the trip was 3 1/2 hours. We had a one hour stop in Panama City, and then another 3 1/2 hours to Orlando. Sally was getting sicker and sicker with chills and a fever. By the time we arrived in Orlando she had to be taken through customs and immigration in a wheelchair. Not a wonderful ending to an unbelieveable trip! We had hoped to go to ... read more

hola! today was my first day of school at san marcos in lima. i woke up at 7:30 and took a cold shower (which i didnt know that you have to turn the hot water on for an hour for it to heat up) had breakfast which my host mama made me because the professor called her and told her that she need to take better care of me. i walked to school around 8:20. it took about 25 minutes. we had spanish class at 9 and anthropology at 11:30. after class we had lunch...what a spread!!!! we had a 3 course meal at the university. appetizer a choice of tamalie or sopa de pollo, main dish: chicken or pork chop, dessert: an awesome cookie with dulce de leche and powdered sugar. i only took two ... read more