Saturday, May 24, 2008

Hasta Tomorrow

That is the cutest little thing that our chef/housekeeper Lupe says... she´s trying to learn English and knows we´re learning Spanish so whenever she goes home for the day she always says ´hasta tomorrow´. She´s wonderful!
I believe I left of at thursday... so thursday we had Spanish in the afternoon, which means 2-6... I don´t like that as much, I find it passes by much faster in the morning, but fair is fair so we spent the morning doing homework outside, it was a really beautiful day! After Spanish, Celine took us to this little cafe about 15 minutes from our house that Kent showed her, and we got coffee, desserts, and studied Spanish (we had an exam the next morning). It was a really cool cafe, but typical Peruvian in the way that our bill was wrong. It´s always wrong! And they always put everyone together... once we asked for separate bills and it was a nightmare, every single one of our bills came out wrong, so we learned from our mistake. Oh, and also, you can´t ask them to make substitutions or anything here, because they will get confused... like this morning Jess asked for no meat and an extra egg with her breakfast... and she got toast, one egg, bacon, and sausage! Anyways, after we got home from the restaurant we basically just kept studying, but got a little creative about it. We played charades to learn cleaning supplies, and clothing items. It was hilarious! But the funniest part was, everytime Celine would get up to act, one of us (usually Jess) would guess what she was going to do before she even started! Three times in a row we guessed with one guess what she was going to act out (dress, umbilical cord, then eyebrows) before she made a move. It was crazy!
Friday was our exam, and they are always oral so it was fine... plus we had studied like monkeys the night before. After Spanish, we all took a little nap, because we had stayed up late playing Spanish Charades and had to get up early for our morning class... so we slept until about 4 when we all got ready to do a little Cindy. I´m not sure if I wrote about Cindy yet... but basically it´s a Cindy Crawford excercise routine that is really fun/hard/great to do, but we think it´s hilarious because a)it´s Cindy Crawford, and b) Celine is in love with her. Seriously, within the first two days probably she had already confessed that Cindy Crawford was her hero! She loves her. So it´s kind of the house inside joke, but her excercizes are actually great! After Cindy we had supper, then got ready to go out... since it is our last weekend here we decided to check out the Peruvian nightlife, and it was crazy! One guy actually came up to me and asked me if I wanted a child (I said no). And nothing closes here until about 6am! It´s so weird. But it was a fun night, and we actually got to practice our Spanish a lot!
This morning we got to sleep in, for probably the first time ever. We slept until about 11:30, and then went out for a team breakfast (and by team I meant Kelsey, Celine, Jess, Kent, Katie, and I)... then we came back and I decided to go for a little walk to someplace I had never been before. I walked in the opposite direction that we usually go, and discovered a little adoration chapel! It was so cute, and there was only me and and old man there, and he was the cutest in the world and always smiled at me haha. It was really nice, and after I left I just bought a popsicle and went for a walk down by the water... it was a beeeeautiful day today, so it was so nice! And there were families playing soccer, and kids with crazy hats, I loved it!
Anyways, I´m back now and writing a little blog... and thinking about how one week from now I will be in Cusco! The trip is just about half over! It´s insane! But I am so ready to go to Cusco, this month was awesome but next month is really the reason I´m here, so I´m really excited. I think all of the girls are.
Anyways, I think Í´m going to stop here... but have a great day and perhaps hasta tomorrow!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

studied like monkeys lol... cindy crawford? really? haha thats good...
your walk sounds LOVELY and an adoration chapel so cute...
i cant believe youre almost at the halfway point... i miss you so much! talk soon! call me for crying out loud!
xo
Maria

6:38 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You had better say NO to that "child" question!!! Oh well, at least you ended up in an adoration chapel!
Your time is flying by, one more week in Lima and then on to yet another new adventure.
We all miss you xoxoxoxoxoMom

8:42 p.m.  

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