umm. i need sleep.

me with mindy. all of these photos are somewhat explained in the paragraphs below. oh, and i accidently posted the photos in the oppostie order. so the last photos happended first. holla.
me with shannon. she is from the annapolis area.
awesome awesome fountain that you could walk under
me underneath the fountain pictured above.
this is at the park with the sweet fountains. this one would turn on and off at random times, so people would run in and out of it. pretty awesome place.
me and my old roomie jud, or better known as juan pedro.
kayla (in the red), from idaho and studying at seattle pacific university and jenny, from somewhere in the south and studying in texas. these two girls have been my main dance partners during salsa class. good times. oh yeah, this is us on our tour bus. woot woot.
mindy, a fellow student and amiga, who i believe studies at the university of kentucky
me and fellow Californian and roommate, brett. oh yeah, my friends call my gloves hobo gloves. what can i say, peru doesn't make gloves with fingers that fit me, so i have to make due with what i can. besides, i pull them off pretty good.
in callao with my host brother, juan carlos albuquerque.
can't say i'll ever look at chicken the same way again
fresh meat in a market close to home
big 'ol church near my house.
my house here in lima.

wow. this weekend was nuts. the party the school put on was about 45min away by bus, so arrived at the place around 11pm. it was a huge outdoor complex with two dance floors playing a variety of music. ended up getting home around 6am. i know crazy. i then woke up at 8:20ish cause i wanted to do that volunteer deal. caught a bus around 9:15, but since the endeavour point was so far away (aka i was in the bus for an hour) i ended up arriving after rondevou had left. so i caught a taxi and went home and slept all morning/most of the afternoon. at 4pm was salsa class, which was half Peruvian students/half gringos. the style was a lot different that what i had gotten used to in mexico, but it was still alot of fun. i think the class ended around 6. then at 9, us multi-country kids met up with a bunch of the isa peru semester kids, and they had the night all planned out for us. we ended up going to a bunch of different bars to try out some the national drinks (don't worry, i was fine) and then we went to a discoteca. ended up getting home at 4am. slept till 12ish.

seems like a lot. uh no. my family had some plans for this afternoon. for lunch (around 1ish) we went to a local market that was nuts (freshly butchered meat hanging everywhere) and we had a dish called ceviche. its a fish dish with onions and stuff and it is like a national dish. after that we visited a district of lima called callao (45min away by bus, it never ceases to amaze me how stinkin big this city is), which is definitely sketch in some parts, but we visited a pretty nice part of it that is near the ocean and is a big port. my host brother, juan carlos (who is 44), was in the navy for 5 years and studied in callao, so he showed me some of his old hangouts and classrooms.

so yeah. the day isn't over. at 6 we had a city tour on a doubledecker bus. way cool. we drove all around the city for over 2 hrs and ended up at this amazing park which had a ton of nutso fountains.

its past 11 right now and i'm just chillin here at the house trying to recuperate from this crazy weekend. i have class mon-thurs this week then off to iquitos (amazon jungle in northern peru) on this weekend.

well. i'm in need of sleep. later.