You're shakin' up the snow globe!

Well folks, what can I say? I'm livin' the life. I wake up in the morning and have breakfast waiting for me...usually cold because I wake up whenever I feel necessary, but that's not the point...I prepare myself for the day and around 1pm every day almuerzo is ready, home-cooked for me and at night I am offered a little snacky snack. Peruvians are definitely the most welcoming people I have ever met in my life. The Peruvians I have met anyways...I mentioned that once to a Peruvian friend and she was quick to correct me that not all Peruvians are kind. I believe her, I don't care to find out for myself. I was placed with an awesome family and I am very lucky! We learn more and more about each other every day. Talking is becoming more common and I am starting to feel more comfortable...like I'm a part of the family :) I am going to miss them when I come home, I hope they will some time be able to come visit me...preferably not in the winter because I would be afraid they would never come back. 

Some of us waiting in line to get into the club!

This week has passed by ENTIRELY too quickly, I actually refuse to believe it has been a week since I posted on here. I catch myself thinking I'm on top of the game but then, BAM...it's been a week. Days just sneak right on by. This weekend we took a short little trip over to Barranco (and by short I mean just a taxi ride lol), a district 20 minutes from where we live to go to a paint party with a couple of our Peruvian friends...since we were SUPPOSED to be in Cusco we weren't going to be able to go to said paint party...but thanks to the kidnappers we got to go!! Lose, win situation. Positive Patsy. That's what life is about right? I had that attitude until about an hour after we got into the club and I was literally sweating from my head to my toes. It was disgusting. I allowed myself to drown in my sweat and the sweat of the other 700 Peruvian people in the club while smelling everyone's body odors for about an hour before I had to come up for air. Haley and I walked up with Kevin (Sam's host brother...aka DJ Agua) toward the bathroom to breath and we were all kind of confused of what was going on with the group because we had yet to see any paint...we did however get water and other liquids sprayed on us sporadically...ANYWAY I became a bit of a party pooper because I couldn't stand the sweaty mess that I had become so Whitney, Sam, Kim and I walked outside to hail a cab. Our friend was very worried about us getting our own cab, but we did just fine...that wasn't our first rodeo ;) I suppose you're wondering what happened next....well, THE PAINT CAME RIGHT AFTER WE LEFT. Whatever, you win some and you lose some. It was a fun experience overall, I think the best part was that we went with our Peruvian friends and they are very much fun! 

Saturday I went over to Lanisa's house and we booked flights from Lima to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile for 10 days and MY DAD IS COMING TO PERU...and ARGENTINA AND CHILE!!! How cool is that? I am very excited to be able to show him what we have been doing, except now I really need to figure out where to take him in Lima. Definitely the water circuits we went to earlier this semester...I'm gonna have to think on it.

After we booked the flights Lanisa's family had invited me up to join their BBQ on their roof patio. It was fun to sit and chat with her family. The food was also very good, we had grilled cheese sticks which were interestingly tasty. 

Sunday...I left my bed twice the entire day...to breakfast and to lunch. You might call that lazy, but I prefer to call it "Peruvian style Sunday activities". 

Monday we didn't do too much, class and started making a brochure for Marta's class. And then I was just jealous of everyone who got to watch The Bachelor while I have YET to watch it. It's okay, I will watch it sometime. Hopefully before he proposes to someone and I have to read about it all over the internet. I've been counseling myself on how I'm going to handle that when it happens next Monday. It's inevitable and I am not happy about it. Deep breaths. 

Tuesday we had an exam in grammar and it was alright. A test is a test, ya know? Luke informed us that we shouldn't study before the exam because it "shakes up your snow globe, and it doesn't have time to settle before the exam"...we all had a little bit of a laugh out of that, but Luke is just a funny fella. 

Today we had a test in Peruvian Literature where we had to write an analysis over a piece of peruvian lit pin pointing one section/theme from one story we have read and analyze it. If you could have seen my face when I patiently let Christian explain how this test would be, I'm pretty sure you would lose it. Classic Danielle "You have got to be kidding me" face. For all of you who know the face, enjoy visualizing that. 

Because we haven't been on any trips recently, this blog is a little bit of a ramble write, but you do have a sweet blog to look forward to around March 17 because I will have been on TWO trips in the span of a week and a half :) 

AND we may still have a possibility of going to Cusco, so not everything is a bust with that...take that kidnappers! 

WELL ONLY 70 DAYS LEFT AND I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE YET!  YOU ALL SHOULD COME HERE :) SEE YOU ALL SOON, AIRFARE IS ONLY APPROX. $1100 ROUND TRIP. ***SHELB, KRIS, ABBS, KEISHY, SAR, HAN, LYSSY, MADDAWG...GO TO GI STEAL VANESSA AND GINGER AND LILY AND I WILL PICK YOU ALL UP FROM THE AIRPORT <3 much love***

¡Hasta luego, mis amigos!