Sitting on the plane in New York, ready to take off for Lima, the captain tells us a storm is coming in and we have to wait 30 minutes. Later, after finishing my book, he tells us another 30 minutes. Eventually we take off and 7.5 hours later arrive .. at 11pm. Erin and I make our way out and both get *randomly* stopped at the bag check area ( you pushed a button.. if it was green you went through.. red- you step to the side and we both pushed it and both got red) They gave us a hard time because i had two laptops (one in erin's carryon and one in mine) while erin had the rest of the luggage on a cart.. they wanted to know why i was going through with two laptops... duh. We walk out to a huge crowd of people holding up signs with names.. and i hear "Abi, Abi!" We found erin's also and made a quick split/goodbye. I arrived to a garage door set between other similar buildings (different colors, different styles, but same sort of squished into eachother look) and then to two very very friendly people- Antonio and Lucy. Bedtime.
Now, I feel like I've been here for a week already.. I've just had a very full first day!! Class then met program people, walked around a lot, had lunch, met two families of friends, made it home, learned about random streets, a bit of my neighborhood, made it to my sister's house, we got lost (really badly) looking for a supermarket, got lost trying to get back from it, took the CRAZZZZZZY public transportation which are these loco vans that speed along with people stuffed inside of it, holding on for dear life. Back at my house we supper'd then talked for like 2 hours with my crazy fun old host dad, watched host sister teach host brother to dance, and then finally navigated the streets to bring my sister back.
Yep we have internet! My room is twice the size of my spain room (haha, not that that's saying much) we have a big dog that's super cool (Atila) with one of those curly, bushy tails, I'm so tired, and i saw the ocean between buildings today. :)
Good first day.
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