Even when you don't have school on Friday's it seems like time just flies by. I can't believe it is already Sunday, where does the time go?! I can just do a quick recap of how my first real weekend in Lima was:
Thursday: Before class we all met at school at 2:30 for a meeting with our "tutors/friends" from UPC (Peruvian students). We chatted with them until 3:30ish then we went to receive a present from the University...a wind breaker that says UPC. I am going to wear it every day. Then from 4-7 we had our last class of the week Conversación Avanzada with Liliana del Río. She was more than comfortable up in front of a bunch of gringos who apparently looked like we all just saw a ghost...because she didn't fail to point out our blank stares and our "Uhhhhhh" replies. It was actually a very fun class, and I'm glad she was so open in poking a little fun at us because as strange as it sounds it made us more open to try to talk. After class, I sat in my room. I am almost too exciting for my own good.
Friday: In the morning Lanisa, Thalia and I went to Jockey to walk around and look at all of the stores. I bought two pareos and a dress. Coming from someone who doesn't like shopping, being with two people who LOVE shopping but told themselves they couldn't buy anything, is a lot of pressure. I don't know if it was just the fact that maybe we walked in twelve circles and I didn't know it, but Jockey Plaza is a pretty big mall. We went to the outside part of the mall, which was very pretty and it has a lot of American brands. Around 2 Thalia asked if we were hungry for a snack and asked if we wanted to try churros...I'm just gonna throw it out there that Taco John's churros are not anything like Peruvian churros. Obviously. After we had our snack we walked around some more until 3:30 or so then we took a taxi home. The taxi driver was very chatty telling us a story about a horrible wreck that happened last week with a family and a secured vehicle (the ones that get money from the stores and take it to banks). The three people in the family all died, while the other driver was okay. So sad, but then he started telling how the wife that died with her husband was the FIFTH wife of the man. Not because the others were gone...he was just married to five women at the same time. So at the funeral all of his other wives were crying and saying, "My husband died.." "No MY husband died!" Granted this was all in Spanish so I can't clarify whether or not that last part was a broma or not but...five wives. Brave man. When we got back to Lanisa's house we had some food called causa (sp?) but it was interesting. Then we painted our nails, and naturally right when we were done painting our nails we had to do something just to ruin the paint. Oh well. So I walked home to take a nap because my stomach was hurting, most likely from the different foods...stomach was confused. So I stayed in my bed all night and watched movies.
Saturday: I woke up around 11:30, ate a little breakfast...crawled back into bed. Did some homework, listened to some music, took a nappy nap. Then around 5 I decided to finally shower, which turned out to work really well. After I showered I called home and chatted with my mom for just about an hour which was nice. Then around 7 Lanisa asked if I wanted to go with Thalia and her to her friends house in San Isidro, so we went there around 9:30 and what happened from there is a blur. Let me explain this blur: 12 Peruvian friends talking. They could have been saying anything and I think I can speak for Lanisa too when I say that the only time I had any idea what most of them was saying was when one person told another to translate it in English for us. They were all very kind and understanding about us not speaking very well, but we tried! And for me, listening to Spanish is as good of practice as any at this point. I need to understand what they are saying before I try to say anything in reply. We played Cranium in Spanish. That game is hard in English... It was actually fun though because they helped us a lot with words we don't know and they explained the cards to us since they all read them so fast. There was lots of laughing during the game and I swear the game lasted for three hours straight but it was very fun to be with a whole group of people around our age. One of Thalia's friends Daniel has a car so he drove us home so we didn't have to take a taxi which was very kind of him. We did experience getting pulled over, but I learned really quickly that the only reason cops pull you over in Lima is to barter money out of you. They say "Pay me 50 soles and I will let you go.." and Daniel said, "I don't have any money with me..." so the cop let us go. Like I've said before, Lima traffic is unheard of in the US...there are no driving rules so I honestly don't even understand La Policía here. Interesting experience, a learning experience. Finally got to sleep around 3am because I've painfully become an insomniac since my time here in Lima.
Today: Well, I woke up rather early today around 9:30 and that means I will be needing a nap in the near future. Naps are acceptable, rather, they are encouraged. I appreciate that. And I embrace it. I love napping. So for now, all today entails is napping and a BBQ at my 'grandmas' house tonight around 7.
I'm not sure how it's already Sunday, but I have to accept it and get ready for classes to start again tomorrow. If all the weeks go by this quickly, I will be back in the states before I can say "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (and certainly faster than the time is took me to look up how to spell that on google..)
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