update: there are birds chirping around the city now!!!!!!

Wrapped up midterms week with a free massage, a pedicure and a night at the Wine Expo with some Peruvian friends.. not bad. The rest of the weekend included a lottttt of sleeping, a lot of running along the beach and a lot more peanut butter :) My grandma thinks I'm a little crazy when she sees me putting it on my banana, making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and spooning it out of the can, but I'm temporarily obsessed.

This week it's back to classes and trying to stay somewhat focused. I've been putting off work on my project lately, which I need to catch up on, and I've got a few more pages to write for my Amazonian Etnography paper (ew).

This week I may be going to volunteer at the UN in Perú with young people who have grown up in the cocaine industry... could be interesting but I'm still not sure if and when I can do this. So we'll see.

This weekend my group is taking a trip to Caral, the most ancient city in the Americas and Sunday one girl from my program and I are planning on running a breast cancer race in the morning... Should be a great weekend.

Another trip coming up is to Carmen for an afroperuano weekend as described to us :) Sounds fun... and I think I'm going to start planning a end of the program trip in December to Iquitos... THE AMAZON RAINFOREST! :) I've seen pictures from other students' trips and it looks amazing. I was trying to decide between Puno (and Lake Titicaca) and Iquitos.. and I think I'm going with Iquitos because it's a region and culture of the city very different from everything else I've seen. Since Greg and I never actually got to see a sloth when we went to Costa Rica, I'm kind of hoping I see one in Iquitos :)

alsoooo the WAILERS are coming to Lima! Jessa & I talked about going to see them and maybe some other people will join us, would be an awesome concert!

56 days or 8 weeks left until I come home.. just a little under 2 months. Skype with a lot of friends and family this weekend. I love to see everyone from home doing so well and so happy :)


Some pictures....


Part of the mosaic wall at Parque del Amor... where I usually run to.




Jessa & I with some Peruvian friends at the Wine Expo... we got to learn a lot about wine from all over south america and try them all for free all night :) Goood times.