I like lists, so i'm gonna try listing my experiences this time.
1) waitresses here don't come to the table unless you wave them down, cause they don't work for tips.
2)the yogurt here is really liquidy, and most of it comes in drinkable form. they come in so many flavors, blackberry, pineapple, lucuma(peruvian fruit), strawberry, grape, tutti frutti, everything. it's so good!
3)there is no fresh milk here. it's either powdered or it comes in a sealed carton, unrefrigerated. so milk isn't a big deal here. strange. i think that's why people eat their cereal with yogurt instead of milk.
4) we went to a vineyard this weekend and i tried a pisco that contained 48% alcohol. It burned. A lot.
5)Last week I took a walk and sat on the cliffs off the coast with my sketch pad. I felt like Lena from "The Sisterhood of the traveling Pants" I was sitting on a beautiful hill, by the beach, in a foreign land, drawing. It feels good to be here :)
6) I thought that I would get really frustrated with all the cat calls but they are so bizarre that they are actually kinda hilarious. I went to the center of Lima with my friend Teela and we were the only two gringas around. We attracted so much attention. Guys were whistling and shouting things every minute. It seems really gross and weird, but I couldn't help but laugh because it was so ridiculous. that's just how it is here.
7) I went to a place called Lunahuana this past weekend with the CIEE group. It was beautiful! It's in a rural area with beautiful hills and a giant river. We saw a mummy, went hiking, went white water rafting, got stampeded by goats...The coolest part was when we got stampeded by goats. We were 4 wheeling down this dirt path in Lunahuana and all of a sudden we came across this giant herd of 50 something goats being herded by this nomad looking lady. It was so neat to see :) At one point they stampeded us because there were a bunch of old grapes on the ground in front of us and they got really excited to eat them. haha.
8)my host mom took me to a market in Lima. Not a supermarket, but a market, which is basically a bunch of venders selling fruits, veggies, meats, spices, etc. It was packed with people! The craziest thing, to me, was when we went by the area selling chicken. All the chickens had been recently killed and plucked and the venders were just chopping away at the chicken. It was cool because i got to see how the butchering process goes. Well, actually, it was pretty gross...really gross. There were piles of chickens and meats and heads and hearts and livers. lovely. My host mom ended up buying a bunch of fillets and I watched the guy cut it off the bone. The grossest thing is that it wasn't a sanitary process at all. yum. Then we went by the beef section and I saw the biggest slab of meat i've ever seen in my life. there was basically a cow thigh hanging up while they butcher was cutting away at it. Ugh. I found myself sympathizing with vegetarians.
9) I'm really tired so sorry if this blog isn't as spicy as usual. I am taking a trip to Ica tomorrow with some friends for Semana Santa, or Holy week. Should be fun :)
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