I have had a crazy week at training, and i am dead tired. Last few days of the week were filled with language, language, and more language. I cant believe i dont know spanish fluently right now because i feel like all i do is try to speak spanish. However the more i speak the better i get so i guess i will be learning everyday...ugh.
Besides language i am having a great time, we started the weekend off right by going to Chosica which is the city that is down the mountain from my house, and pretty much all the other volunteers houses as well. We all met to go out on the town and do some kareokee, (i know i just butchered how to spell that) and it was a blast, i sang Roxanne by the police and Shakira´s hips dont lie (IN SPANISH) with my friend Katy and it was a blast. However the best part of the weekend was today, i woke up at 730 and woke up my friend Sabrina who also happens to be my next door neighbor and we traveled from our house far into Chosica to go to this olympic thing that my friend Ali´s family was participating in. I had my first moto taxi experience and it wasnt nearly as sketchy or deadily as i thought but i probably wont be doing it again. Anyways we went to this olympic festival where a bunch of kids and their families were on teams of like 10 kids a team, and they were each a different place, like spain, peru and other countries. They start the day of with a parade type thing and each team has to do a dance infront of judges, and we got put on the spain team and wore spain jerseys and danced with the kids. Then after that i got to meet all the kids and hang out with Peruvian families all day. It was so much fun, they all were loud and crazy, they had soccer games going and they had races going, and even later in the day they had volleyball going. I got to play volleyball with the Espana team and it was fun, but i felt like it was going to be like ¨Meet the Parents where Ben Stiller hits the volleyball over the net and breaks someones nose...so i was just passing it, but it was still nice to play. Sabrina and i left before the day was over and went to the super market where i bought the ingredients of a lentil soup to make for my family tomorrow. i also got the ingredients to make guacamole with some garlic onion tomatos and this sauce called Aji, look it up, because it is really good, and adds flavor to the dull rice we recieve with every meal. We also stopped and had ice cream which was oh so refreshing and then we headed back to our houses where i took a freezing cold shower and shaved my legs for the first time since washington dc...ya picture that and how nasty that is...but oh well that is life in peru. I was going to just hang out until my mom pointed out the window saying your friends, and sure enough my friend amanda and ryan were walking down the street so i joined them on a walk, and now i am here! But i have to go again because it is time for dinner...and yes i said dinner and it is 8 they eat so late here...ahh, but i will be back again sometime in the week and hopefully i will be able to provide pictures this time...
Love you all!
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