Thursday, October 6, 2011

Peruuuuuuuu






So I am finally over to Peru! After a long day of traveling, I felt like I was finally in Latino America. The cars are honking, and the people are darker. There is no tea time European dream, just Peru. The first day I got here I met my wonderful family Martha, Angel, and Andres who make me feel like Peru is my home. Every morning I wake up to fresh strawberry, pinapple, papaya, mango, or pear juice, and Martha buys me jungle fruit to try. I have eaten Lucuma which is Peruvian, Granadilla which is like an orange and a pomogranite had babies. I have also tried Guyanabana, which is more sour, and cucumber melons. I have eaten cactus fruit, and the avocados are huge! The food is outstanding, and very infused with other native, and Chinese cultures. The second day we got her we went on a city tour, and past the government building the hotel Boliviar, Larco Mar, and Parque Kennedy. While we were taking a bathroom break, there was an earthquake tremor that felt like someone was making this large shopping center bounce just a little. It was like when someone bounces hard on the floor and you can feel it inside your feet. All of the geology and plate tectonics of the Andes and South America is really amazing, I am so happy to be here. After the tremor we went to a Franciscan church that was like walking into Alice and wonderland. Inside the church were caticombs from the 1600's were there were 25,000 bodies found, because it was the first cemetery of Lima. The life of a Limonian is much slower than a Porteno, I think that I could get used to Peru.

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