Is it really Octubre??

Well well well. Interesting week I had. Tuesday went to see Planeta de los Simios(planet of the apes) with Ella and some Peruvian friends. Didn't realize that it would be dubbed so that was a Spanish adventure. Surprisingly I understood it all which was really cool. It was midterms week so two of my classes got cancelled Wednesday so Ella and I went surfing with our friends/instructors and we both ate a lot of shit but did really well on the shorter boards. Yesterday Ella and I decided to explore Barranco ( a cool artist/hippy neighborhood on the beach) because the only time we ever go is at night. We wandered around found a cute art gallery, ate some cookies, and took pics. Then at night we had a dinner with our CIEE group at La Dama Juana. It was a fancy buffet dinner accompanied by Peruvian dances! Ella and I were a little late getting there so we of course got the seats next to the stage...needless to say, the pulled us on stage to dance. 

 Dancin' and eatin'

 Okay I turned into Indiana Jones since you last saw me. That was not my hat btw,it was part of their costume.

                  Okay and then this happened.....but he was like a Peruvian James Franco..so I don't hate it.

Tonight is the Peru v Paraguay futbol game..AMO PERU!

America Latina

Realllly into this video...

Punta Hermosa

Tranquilo fin de semana! Ayer fuimos a punta hermosa! We wanted/meant to go to Cerro Azul to go surfing but we got a little lost and the bus ended up not going that far. So we got out in a small fishing village called Pucusana (I think)...ate some palta sandwiches, saw more scary peruvian dogs and then got back on the bus. We headed back towards Lima and got out at a beach town called Punta Hermosa. Apparently in the summer it is hoppin! Since it isn't summer though not too many people were there. First beach I have seen with sand. We didn't get to surf but we did do some extreme body surfing. Can't wait to return, it was only 45 minutes south of Lima and you can take a micro right there. It's only about 3 soles or 1 USD each way. loveee it. 

 Pucusana

 Punta Hermosa

 Ella Bella

kinda looks like Greece

Anniversary

As of today I have been in Peru for two months!

How time flies..only two and half more to go:( sad. Anyway here is a bulleted list of random thoughts after two months...

-why when turning left would you go to the far right lane then try to cut off? three more lanes? why bus driver why !

- they eat every part of the chicken here...yah the feet/claw ...bleh

-someone got killed at the U v Alianza game last saturday so now we can't go to the Peru v Paraguay game:(

- at La Catolica (my school) there are big drama /protests going down because the Vatican wants to make it really catholic

- I don't like when my underwear dries in the kitchen...

-palta palta paltaaa(aka avocado..you have never tasted something so good)

-spanish is not called spanish here, it is castellano

-when Peruvians speak in English I can't help but die laughing...so thank you Peru for not laughing at me when I speak Spanish

- Also spanish speakers can't say 'ld' so "world" comes out like "word"

-here I am Sara not Sarah 

- when you buy stuff sometimes at the giant supermarket they write you a receipt at the counter then you take it to the register, pay, then walk back to the counter and they give you what you want

- I broke my key in the door...twisted it all around...I'm like the hulk

- If you want to take a shower you have to turn on the water 40minutes before...major planning

-The sidewalks and every other floor surfaces are really slippery

-nobody has carpets..shoes all the time in the house

Okay that is all that comes to mind as of now!

edit----
-everyone says I have the face of a child..it's getting old

Pachamama needs a taxi!

Fuimos a Huacachina-

For starters the bus ride was a surprise..what we thought would be two hours turned out to be four, sopresa! Anywho we went with literally no plans of where to go or stay really, we ended up in Huacachina, a desert oasis about 4.3 minutes away from Ica. Friday we didn't do much because we got in late and everyone was tired. Saturday we woke up walked around the lagoon to go get some breakfast, took paddle boats out on the lagoon and lounged by the pool. Later we went sandboarding and in a dune-buggy. I think those drivers must loveeeeee their jobs. It was like a roller coaster gone wild..but not really. Sandboarding was fun, I like lying on the board more than going standing up, less sand in yo' pants! But en serio.... I probably don't want to go sandboarding again, it hurt and I think snow is way more fun.



After sandboarding we went on a winery tour..they called it ,in English, the Shit-faced tour. We went with some other foreigners to a bodega/ winery/ place where they make pisco. It was seriously like the Museo Nacional that I didn't go to last weekend when everyone else did; they had all this old armor, Incan weapons, swords from Simon Bolivar, and other old shit that they found. We "taste-tested" two different types of pisco..as in we took shots of two different types of pisco, and if you have never had pisco..it is nasty. Pachamama (mother earth Quechua style) needs a taxi was our joke because before you take a shot you pour some on the ground to praise Pachamama and some of us "accidently" poured out a little too much. So Pachamama got drunk. Also I have never seen this done before but the pisco and wine are stored in these strange clay vessels and they dip a bamboo stick in it that has a cutout and then they pour the little shots out of the bamboo stick...extrano. And then we had 3 different types of wine, all really sweet, which I liked. Then they brought us pitchers of our favorite wine and pisco and we stayed and danced/drank there til 12 and after we proceeded on to the one discoteca in Huacachina where our sandboarding instructor was there mixing drinks as a bartender.
Lost my watch, I guess I will be adapting to Peruvian time sooner than expected.

Ella has some cool pictures of us on the dunes that I will steal from her later and post.

 The oasis, looks like nasty green water, and it was. Apparently it has curative properties and you can roll around in the mud and then cure your heart disease!

 sun sun sun

 before we fell...and before we sandboarded

 The only pyramid in this desert

 Meghan and Indy

 Please note the museum like background..and the strange vessels..all full.

...after a few

...procrastination

here is a little preview of what's to come..because some people can't wait..mom.

nada muchooo

Welllll I keep forgetting my password..so that's why I haven't been posting so much, and nothing too crazy happened this week.

 Friday Ella and I went to Starbucks and it was really nice and cozy and felt like winter almost. Then later in the night we went with her family to a Club, which is like an event center, and it was somewhat of a showcase of Peruvian song/dance and Ella's host brother's guitar teacher was releasing his new CD so it was for him I think. Anyway it was cool to see, probably the most Peruvian thing we have done so far. We danced in circles with all the old people, fun fun.

Saturday we went surfing which is always a good time. Then later in the night we went to audriana's friends house to pregame for this charity event....most amazing house, got to know some more Peruvians and then the event was cool, it was like a discoteca outside.

And today(sunday) we got up and went surfing again because it was soo beautiful and sunny! It probably wasn't a good idea though because I was so sore from Saturday. We used shorter boards this time too which was frustrating and the waves weren't that good but it was still fun. Then I went with my friends Emily and Indy to go watch Indy's guy friends play soccer. Here are some picz of this weekend that I stole from Ella!

 After surfing on saturday...cold on zeh beach..not sunny

 can't really see it but that's me! in my neopreneeee today

the sun was out all day...amazing...and I do not know why but there are always a billion parapenters (i think thats what it is called) and I want to do it some time!