Friday, December 24, 2010
Lima, Peru
I am officially living in the house that my father grew up in! Going to spend over two months here and I am already off to an awesome start. Last night I left the house in search of food and ran into my aunt on the corner. We went out to dinner, bought a map, got ice cream, waited in holiday lines. I met a man at the mall who grew up down the street from my dad and all my uncles and aunts when they were kids! Today my cousin, his girlfriend, and I walked around Lima, got sandwiches and tattoos. I just walked to the corner store under a beautiful smog sunset, down the streets that my father did! Walked through the intersection that defined his entire childhood. Now I am helping my aunt, my cousin, and her boyfriend string up Christmas lights. Tonight we will dine on the traditional Christmas Eve midnight turkey dinner! Man it's good to be Peruvian.
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Dude I just read a lot of your blog posts. I laughed so hard about calling that man "senora."
ReplyDeleteWhen I got to the farm in Mexico 3 out of the 4 other volunteers were from Portland and the other was from Bend.
Your adventures sound utterly magical. Way to go.
-Amanda