After 3 weeks...

Hola!

So, I is Saturday night, and I am exhausted. I am done with all orientation and submersion classes. Thank god. I have figured out the bus system and life is going rather smothly. I begin real classes on Monday and look forward to seeing how that goes. Last weekend was very busy. The group went out to Barranco (different part of Lima) on Friday night and Saturday night my family took me to their beach house where I went to a soccer game. The soccer game proved to be quiet a cultural experience. This week, we watched two Peruvian movies, the first was rather good about the struggles of an Incan woman. It was called Madeinusa (Made in USA...get it?). The second was terrible and I will never speak of it again cause the premise of it was that a woman was growing a potato in her vagina. We have visited two ruins sites. One was Pre-Incan Limans and the other was Incan. I am enjoying going out to dicsotecas and have found social life here to be great :) Tonight, I am resting cause it was a long night/day/evening. So far I prefer many things here opposed to the States including the food. However, I miss customer service at restraunts, and I hate it that people are rather racist against my skin color here. However, it is a great life lesson for how many people are treated back home. I have many a couple Peruvian friends and hope to expand that so that I can blend better. Never in my life could I have dreamed that I would be able to speak Spanish as well as I do now and it is only going to get better with more time. Today, however, on the bus home, I had my first real scare for my life. Ahead of the bus was a fight between people with a Chilean flag and the policia. There was a bomb that went off and shaked the bus and a significant amount of gunfire, we all ducked on the bus, closed the windows, and the clouds cleared in seconds. Scary, but I am safe and overall that is not normal. Hope all is well in the States. I hope to update you all soon on my classes next week.