I am alive.

I am writing this post to let all of you know that I am alive, though I have been without internet for the past couple days. To be honest, I am not in much of a writing mood but I am keeping to my goal of not forgetting that I have a blog to upkeep. It seems to help me clear out my brain because the days have begun to blur together in a huge smear of traffic and rapidly spoken Spanish. Homesickness is beginning to settle in, and trust me, you do not want to know what I would give for a slice of Giseppi's pizza right now.

But enough about that. I have too many wonderful things happening right now to be able to complain, so I will allow myself only two sentences to focus on the negative.

Now back to the fun stuff. Over the past 3 days I have been to Wong a total of 12 times. I am literally keeping track, because it is getting a bit comical. I spent about 2 hours in there today figuring out how to buy an internet chip, so now my connection should be much more solid! Other than trips to the grocery store I have been doing so many amazing things I can't even remember them all. On Saturday night I went to dinner with my host mother and tried a popular Peruvian drink, called a Pisco Sour. People in this country are also obsessed with Chicha Morada and Inca Cola (soft drinks). During my past couple dinners out, I have realized that Peruvians are a hoot to be around at meals because they are so passionate about what they eat - and they eat with style.

On Sunday I watched the Super Bowl with our family friends, the Gretzingers, at an American pub called The Corner. I think that every white male in Lima was crammed into this place, and I found myself completely forgetting that I was in South America instead of a small Texas town for the big football game. Also during the past few days, I went to my first movie in Peru and took my exams for my school (which I admit, I have been avoiding talking about until now). To say the least, they did not go well. This is mostly because the entire exam was in Spanish. I was allowed a spanish-english dictionary, but that wasn't much help with my 200 + questions to answer in Math, Spanish, and History, etc.

But, I am very proud to say, I most definitely aced the English section.