that is ceviche. and it's awesome.
besides the greatness of ceviche, our trip to peru began at 7:30am and we met at the center to take a coster there (basically, a bus-van). it took roughly an hour to appear in central de lima and our adventure there was basically the same as when we were in chosica, in that we had to interview random people on the streets to practice our spanish and to learn about the area and the people. there's a gorgeous cathedral and tons of museums, but i basically had zero time to spend admiring the area. once our interviews and things were over, we took a taxi to miraflores to do pretty much the same thing again. again, no time to look around the area until after our work. however, after our interviews and things, we basically just ate as much as we could.
heads up, lima is the gustatory capital of the WOOORRLLDDDDDDDDD!!!! seriously. but we went to a nice, kinda pricey restaurant (where i ate my ceviche), moved to pinkberry for desserts (froyo with chirrimoya as a topping. i freakin love chirrimoya.), and ended in starbucks (iced grande caramel macchiato with soy milk. not the best, my coffee was kind of watered down? ah well, i finally got a hit of coffee that isn't nescafe). too soon, it was getting kind of late and we needed to get a cab back to chosica, which we lucked out on and found a taxi guy who hailed a nice, van-y one for the group i was in.
i immediately passed out and woke up today for church, followed by family activities! today was the day my host great grandmother passed away. we all piled into a van and drove to lima, where the cemetery is located. after paying our respects, we went to a park and had a picnic lunch (chicken, potatoes, and ocoba- delicious except it's made with msg...), and then we went to a place that serves pachamanca, not to eat, but to drink and dance. so drink and dance i did! well, mostly hydrating because i hadn't had a lot of water all day, but i did have a small glass of this mix of beer and coke, which is a bit strange but it's not bad. then we danced to different music, slow music that is played around junin and later, faster music from the region of santiago. personally, i prefer faster music but i had a good time trying to figure out how to dance to more traditional music than i'm used to. plus, i danced with mi famila so that was fun! grandparents, mom, uncle, aunt, cousins (one other PCT lives basically next door to me, and is currently my cousin! haha, awesome). the festivities ended and we needed to return home (my host sister has finals this week and she needed to get back home to study. her birthday's coming up this week and i'm going to attempt to make a cheesecake! hope it goes well... i wonder if sour cream exists at the supermarket called plaza vea. this market is basically a walmart and i can find most things here, except for a few random ingredients so i hope sour cream isn't one of them!)
in totally different news, i've just been elected president of PC Peru 17! a junta directiva is basically a small governing group that exists in basically every different organization and area. it's super serious and can get pretty intense at times, according to the instructors, but our PC JD exists in order to get a few matters done, like figuring out PC Peru 17 souvenirs and organizing a thank you party for our host families. i've never been president before, so i'm gonna do my best! it helps that everyone here is just so freakin awesome, and the PC JD is composed of those amazing people.
PC Peru 17: these next couple of years are going to fly like no other, and it's gonna be totally awesome.
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