The latest from Lima!

I have returned to Peru, for the 4th time..! This time I am working and living. I am doing some blog updates but it will be just as good as before, full of travel stories and ideas, stories from volunteering and working and much much more!  Just like before feel free to email me with any questions about travelling in Peru, scaponi212@gmail.com.

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Thanksgiving and lobos del mar!

Finally  a worthy post!

pretty sunny Lima loou!

Wednesday I went straight from my last  etnografia class(wohoo!) to Ella's house with Jacey, Mauricio met up with us then we all went to the center of Lima to go see our friend Adet sing traditional Andean music. It was a cool cultural experience, music from different provinces.

                                 Surfing last weekend with some ladies. Looking away though because it was so sunny!

Then Thursday was Thanksgiving of course. Went to my last history class, thank god. Prepared some asparagus then headed over to Jen's house with Viole and Mauricio. It was an awesome way to spend Thanksgiving, everyone in my program prepared/brought something traditional and we all brought some Peruvian friends/family to share the experience.

Turkey on the Pie

afterwards

mis amigos!

And todayy woke up way to early for my liking and headed out with the group to Callao to go see the Isla Palomino. Snoozed on the boat until we reached the islands with the sea lions. Smelly and loud..only way to describe it. I was soo tired so I decided not to go swimming with the lobos del mar..but then when everyone went in I decided why not and jumped in to! They were so funny just popping up their heads and looking at us. We also saw humboldt penguins:) And everyone got burned to a crispy crisp..ooops!

 oh we wont get burned it is cloudy- se dice

 I spy a penguino! Do you?

jajajajajj yesssss

Lunahuana

I had another baking experience, and let me tell you they just keep getting better! Last week decided to bake cookies with my boyfrandd, yes you read that correctly, and his sister. I swear they thought I was a magician or something and they were only chocolate chip! We burned the shit out of them but they still loved them. The funniest part was that they were surprised an hour later when the cookies weren't soft anymore...hahaha

Anywhoooo went with my program this weekend to Lunahuana- a lush green valley en el campo. Shortly after arriving we headed out white water rafting. The river was beautiful, we all got drenched and swam in some rapids. After lunch we headed out on a city tour-we hiked a hill to see some ruins, walked around little lunahuana, went to an extremely old vineyard and tasted some wine and pisco, went to some other place where  we taste tested delish honey and then went to a real haunted house! Apparently ten days after it was built everyone who lived there died..and I don't remember the rest, but we walked through in the dark and it was spooky.

 My new profession..cobrador...the people who rally you onto the micros and take yo moneyz..this is how they appear yes.

 Today we woke up at dawn and were told we were going zip-line ing and on a short trek. The zip-line was nothing like costa rica..see picture. It was more of a pully system that took forever. The trek lasted over an hour, in the hot desert, at 8 am all just to see... a mummy. The mummy was pretty cool but due to lack of breakfast no one was feeling the trek. After breakfast and pool time we went horseback riding. Which alright but nothing like Huaraz when we rode horses up to glaciers for 5 hours. We lunched and pooled some more before heading out to go on cuatrimotos(four-wheelers, atv's..I don't know what you people call them). We started out single file, mind you two on each cuatrimoto, going through the center of Lunahuana, then we went off on some strange mountain trails and that's when the fun began. Lets just say it was sort of like mariokart in real life. Ella and I came in second only because Tonisha is a crazy driver.

 "zip line"

 Loquitos behind mee

...evil

Tomorrow is Halloweeen...so hopefully we can celebrate it well down here. Tuesday is Dia de los Muertos/ Dia de la cancion Criolla...going to the largest clandestine cemetary, should be interesting!