Center of Lima and Sea Lions.

Thursday night was Jordy’s Santo and her host family threw her quite the bash. We ate soo much food and drank and danced, it was definitely a Peruvian style birthday party. Also, Jordan’s mom was in Lima so we got to see her (and she brought homemade sugar cookies! =]) and it was fun to see how one of our parents actually thought of Peru and how we had been living for fourish months.

Friday I went to the Center of Lima to explore with Jonathan. It is always an adventure trying to find the right bus that will take you downtown but I'm a big fan of this experience. Jonathan pays more attention to the routes than I do so he got us there without any troubles (although getting home by myself is another story). Mostly we just walked around to see the area of the center, Plaza de Armas, Plaza San Martín and Jirón de la Unión. And of course, I bought some movies…too many probably but I just can’t help it. We did find the mighty Rímac River that Lima was founded around, although it doesn’t seem so mighty that day.

Then yesterday we went to swim with the sea lions. We rode a bus to the port in Callao to get on the boat for our ride out to the Islas Palomino. Along the way we were able to view some other islands and some of us even took a siesta (it was quite a long ride, a cold and windy one at that). Finally we reached los lobos marinos, and there were sooo many. It was ridiculous. And they smelled. Terribly. Seriously they were everywhere and I don’t even know how they function, or reproduce, or stand to be so close and/or laying on top of each other. It was quite a sight. So anyway after we got there I decided not to swim with them. It was just too smelly and cold for me. The students that got it (whom you can see in my foto) had a lot of fun, but in the end I was ok with not joining in.

Tonight a few of us girls went to see the Spanish version of RENT. It was amazing. I loved it. I’m really happy I went and I can’t stop smiling. I only know the songs in English so it was cool to experience how it was translated.

Alright well that’s all for tonight. Only 22 days left and a lot to do, so I’ll try to stay updated but y’all know how I am.

hasta pronto,
<3 aj