Hello everyone! Today I am lucky enough to write you from the beautiful, sunny Lima! We got here two nights ago and have had 3 seminars since and some time to explore. Yesterday, we suffered a little through two back to back seminars... and for the record NOT A SINGLE person my age has that long of an attention span... In fact, I'm not sure that ANYONE has that long of an attention span. The second seminar I found much more interesting than the first, but m...

Hola todos! Hello everyone!!!! Here's to the end of a long week! I finished my Quechua classes this week, and took my exam yesterday... for the exam we went to rural community and had to communicate with different families in Quechua. I felt very good about the exam and enjoyed getting to meet a mainly Quechua-speaking family and get to see all their animals, their farm, etc. It was a very interesting experience. I especially liked seeing all their qowe (cuy in...

Hello everyone! Friends, family, classmates, and other... things that you are! I write to you now from the beautiful Cusco, Peru. While it is beautiful, it is also polluted (as in air pollution clogging my lungs every time I walk to class and back 4x a day), crazy-touristy (as in WAY OVERLY touristy alllll the time), party-y, and much more. I've moved in with my host family as of a few days ago and have already been sick - so hopefully I'm over being sick for t...