Ok. So I just want to tell you about my day. Here it goes.

Day starting at 12 am.

I went to a Beatles concert in Lima. No, they are not dead/dying. They just moved to Lima. The anthropology department at my school hosted a concert/party in Miraflores last night and the featured band does cover music for the Beatles. People here love the Beatles. During the whole concert, every single person was singing away. They know more words to the songs than I do. Nice.

I left around 2:30ish, which is considered quite early based on Peruvian party time. I then came to realize that the micros were no longer running. Dang it. I suppose they go to sleep sometime after midnight. I stood there contemplating on whether I should take a street taxi or call a taxi seguro(safe taxi). There were no micros, but a bajillion street taxis. BUT apparently the assault rate from street taxis has gone up in the past couple of month, and my superhero skills to fight off the bad guys were all pooped out from the concert, soooo taxi seguro it was.

Then i got up at 8! And guess what! The sun was out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is big news you guys. The sun has been taken captive by the giant gray cloud of Lima for quite a while. So yay sun!

This morning was going to be the first visit to see an artisan that I am researching. He has a workshop in the center of Lima where he makes embroidered items for festivals and celebrations. In one of my classes we are studying artisanship within the city of Lima as opposed to the rural areas of peru, since they are very distinctive. So we get to visit an artasin throughout the semester and get to know his work, and my group picked embroideries. Sweet!! I feel like such an anthropologist.

But guess what. After being in a micro AND taxi for a total of 1.5 hours, he wasn't there. Lima traffic is a life ruiner, lemme tell ya. And to top it off, my micro ride back to my house(after finding out he wasn't there) was another 1.5 hours.
But don't worry my friends. I've gotten used to it. I still really enjoy micro rides. There is always something that happens...whether a clown man gets on trying to sell vitamin candy, or a baby starts to have a non verbal conversation with you, or a lady gets dragged off the micro and robbed.

Finally i got home to Barranco. Yay Barranco :) Alejo and Paula were just finishing up lunch so i ate with them. Today's meal was....drum roll please....cau cau!
Cau cau is basically a mix of potatos, aji, and cow stomach. Yum ;) I tasted the mondongo(cow stomach) and it was grooosssss and slimy! sldfkjslfj So I ate cau cau with chicken instead. yum!

Lunch was fun, I got to vent to Alejo and Paula about my unnecessary morning micro trips. I love this family :) I've noticed lately that my Spanish is legit. I think I'm fluent. I mean, maybe? I can talk without much of a problem. yesss! And there are moments when I find my self blabbering away. I'm also in a creative writing class this semester, and I love it!! It's so fun! I also think my creative juices work better when i think in Spanish. So maybe I'll become a famous gringa author who writes novels in Spanish. Alright! Another life option.

After lunch i went to take a nappy nap before my next mission of the day: A trip to a Brasilian Pentacostal Church in Lima that I am studying for another anthropology class. This particular church is found throughout a lot of South America, and they are known for being VEERRYY charismatic. O mejor dicho, un poco loco...yo diría.
BUT, that was cancelled because some of my group members couldn't make it.

Learning to live life flexibly...and patiently.

Ok. That was my day.
Now I have a headache, and am quite casada.
night :)