So much to do, so little time...

This past weekend was once again, pretty laid back. We didn't have class Wednesday because we had a class field trip on Saturday. On Wednesday I tried purchasing plane tickets for my parents and I when we travel around Peru. I thought it would be a simple process.... ha boy was I wrong! I wasn't able to pay online after trying three different credit cards, so I had my sister Liseth call into the airline company. They said I could pay with either credit card or cash, so we drove to their office which was about 20 min. or more away. We get there and the lady brings up my confirmation number and then said if I wanted to pay with credit card I needed to show her my Passport... The embassy has our passports right now because we need new visas (ours expired after 60 days) I told her I had a copy but she wouldn't take that, and since I have a limit on how much cash I can take out a day our trip was a fail. My mom had to make some legal errands so she came with us and we did it all in one trip. A trip that lasted 5 hours... I definitely wasn't a happy camper, but thankful I had brought my iPhone so I could listen to music and play some solitaire. At the end of the day though my mom bought me an ice cream cone so that made up for the long day! Thursday we were able to figure out how to pay for the plane tickets. Since I couldn't pay with credit card and it would take me about a week to get enough cash to pay, my family lent me the money and I paid them back day by day. When we went to pay for the plane tickets we also ran some quick errands for Liseth and Maria. One highlight was I tried my first churro!! It was really good, and only 1 sole (about $0.40)! How do you say no to that?

In the middle it had a carmel like cream!

After we went to the grocery store and I saw some bread with sprinkles. I was intrigued since I LOVE sprinkles.

Pan Guagua (Pronounced Wawa)

My sister said I could get one if I wanted to try it. She explained to me that in Quechua (the Incan Language) that Guagua means baby. That's why it's in the shape of a baby, one of the eyes sank, but it had two chocolate chips for the eyes and sprinkles on top! I told Liseth that sprinkles are for any age... She also told me in Cusco they make the bread a lot bigger and decorate it fancier with frosting. 

On Friday I worked on homework since we didn't have class and I also worked on planning my parents and my trips in Peru. In the afternoon Mariah and I went shopping at a market close to the grocery store, about a 30 minute walk from my condo. I bought some crazy printed pants. They are really popular here and probably the comfiest thing I have ever bought... along with being the ugliest things I have every bought. They almost look like MC Hammer pants, but they are really soft and stretchy, with pockets! I might go buy a plane pair this weekend so I can have a pair to wear in public... After I came home I was Skyping with my parents about details of our trip and our power went out... It was ok though since the sun was out, and I got a lot of homework done since I didn't have internet. But the sun set pretty fast, so we had to light candles. I told my family that as a child I had always wanted the power to go out so we could walk around the house with candles. So my childhood dream came true! Later that night we lost power again, but I was watching a movie on my computer and it had already buffered so it didn't bother me! 

On Saturday we went to on a class field trip to the Museum of Contemporary Art with my Literature class in Lima. The museum showed a lot of Lima's history, the terrorists in the 80's and about the people that live here today. After touring the museum we did an activity with the workers. The museum had a little park attached to it where kids were playing and having a birthday party. We did a strange activity where we had long strips of cloth and we had to spin in circles really fast and meet the person on the other end in the middle... it was kind of fun, it made you extremely dizzy though, and non of us understood the meaning of it so we were very confused. After I worked on homework since we had a lot due this week! But I got bored with my homework and helped Liseth with her Architecture model that she was making. It was a lot more fun that my homework. Especially since she had already done all the cutting, so I just glued the landscape together. She said that it was the easier part of the project, but to get to that point was a lot of work and hard. My mom also gave me some cooking lessons that night! She had to work in the morning so she was making lunch for Sunday. I'm learning that all of their recipes are very tasty and very simple. I keep asking my mom how she makes food and she always says oh a little of this and this, it's easy!! So hopefully it's as easy as she describes when I get back to the states!

This room had pictures of different lifestyles in the town of Lima. The town is very diverse and this showed a little bit of where people came from, what they do now and their traditions.

This is a picture from the 80's. There was a little girl and the terrorists burned her house down and the only thing she was able to grab before she escaped was this picture of Jesus.

On Sunday I finally finished most of my homework for the week! Now that the semester is coming to an end we have a lot of things due. They haven't heard about "Dead Week" here in Peru... I had my first final on Monday and I think it went well. I was thankful that our teacher moved our final to last week so we wouldn't have four finals in a row next week!

I'm getting excited to have school over with and I get to see my parents in a little over a week!!!! But at the same time I am going to miss Peru sooo much! I'm both excited to come home and see all my friends that I miss deeply and family, but extremely sad to be leaving Peru. I feel like I'm finally getting a grip on the language and now it's time to leave... Hopefully I can find someone in the states to practice my Spanish with!