lima. so far it has been pretty crazy. my host family is like a sitcom, such a wide variety of personalities it makes life interesting. the food here is way different from mexico. in the last week i've eaten about 10 avocados. our dinner the other night was bread and avocado. with lots of salt. oh my goodness do they love salt here. it goes on everything. but overall I can't complain about the food. the lunches are really good, usually white rice with a meat dish, breakfast is bread with cheese and ham usually, and dinner just depends on the night. last night they made us pizza which was a good break.

the accent here is so different from mexico and i feel like i have to learn a new vocubulary system. in mexico, lunch was comida, but here is it almuerzo. and the word for "here" in mexico was aqui and "there" was alli and "over there" was aca, but here aca is "here". takin some time to get used to.

tonight going out to a party that the university is putting on. supposedly there are going to be a ton of people there and crazy music. then tomorrow morning i'm volunteering at a orphan's home (or something similar) and playing with kids all morning. hopefully i'll have some energy left to do that. then at 3:30 we have a cultural activity with peruvian students and the activity just happens to be dancing salsa. darn. haha. YEAH. saturday is going to be nuts. sunday, i think we have a tour around town on a doubledecker bus, and then who knows from there.

yesterday I decided to go to a musuem across the city. it is called "museo de la nacion". it's a history musuem with a lot of pottery and stuff. it actually didn't have anything that was crazy cool, but i used the opportunity to expand my spanish vocabulary by writing all the words down that i didn't know. the crazy part is the musuem is about 30-40 minutes away from my house by bus, so i had to find my way over there on my own which was pretty tough. and the buses are made for short people, so i had some difficulty fitting. but all in all it was a pretty cool experience.

oh yeah. the house i'm in has a microphone and headset (pretty sure they work) so if you want to talk on skype, just holla. i believe the time zone is an hour behind the east coast, or two ahead of the west coast. my skype account is "samueldorland"

chau.