Weekend and School

Saturday night some of my roommates and I went out to the discos. Ceci (daughter) was nice to show us around. We went to Miraflores to a place called Calle de los pizzas (street of pizza) because all there is on the street is like 20 Italian pizza/pasta place and some discos (clubs). Outside of the pizza places they have workers yelling at you to come into their pizza place. The disco we went to was pretty small but met up with some girls who lived in my house 3 weeks ago. I learned some new Latin dance moves, people here are SO good at dancing. I know I look like an idiot but its still fun. They discos are blasting really loud Latin music with strobe lights and smoke etc. Normally it’s hard to understand people in clubs like this, but trying to understand Spanish was a very interesting task. I epically failed at conversation inside of the club and would just make up answers whenever someone would talk to me- I just assumed the usual questions. 1) Where are you from, 2) what are you doing here, 3) how long are you here, 4) when did you get here. We were all pretty tried from the day so we decided to head home around 2 which is very early in Peru; most people stay out until 4 or 5am.

Sunday I did nothing. We all just relaxed, hung around. Enrique took us for a drive around Miraflores and San Isidro. We saw some cute parks I want to go back to, one has the Nazca lines made in flowers with lights that are on in the night time.

Monday I had a useless orientation at La Catolica. It was 30 min long and was the same information that we received in an email a week ago. Trevor arrived from Virginia and I took him for a walk around Magdalena, San Isidro and Miraflores. We went to that park w/ the Nazca Line and it was really cool. The other boy from Virginia missed his flight and will be here on Tuesday. Kat introduced me to some of her friends from Holy Cross that are in her group here, we all went to a market in Magdalena. They have everything from clothes to household items and food. One section had just meets that were sitting out at room temperature all day. Whole chickens with their heads and feet still on them. It was the worst smell I have ever smelled in my whole life, at one point I was very close to puking. I wanted to plan a trip for this weekend to go up north but no one is able to go with me so I think I’ll be spending the rest of the week in Lima.