Part 1

Well my loyal followers I had quite the post for you all but unfortunatly this has been my first opportunity to use the internet since arriving in site....and I cant open the file with the post i wrote. Ay oh well.

As I said in my last post we had a busy last week in Lima. That Thursday we had our host family celebration and farewell. Believe it or not yours truely not only danced but sang as well. One of the language facilitators had been giving Peruvian dance lessons and put together a little number for our families. It was fun and quite entertaining since those of us performing, in general, were not the most talented of the group. I also sang a song with my Spanish class in Quechua (indigenous language). My host mom, her two sisters who have volunteers and my friend mario´s mom had a little surprise for us as well. They had prepared a dance for us and planned on preforming it at the farewell but a nother group preformed the same one. After much convincing they agreed to preform it for us and the other volunteers that night at my house. It was absoultly adorable. My host family decorated our house and the mom´s preformed, what i affectionatly call, the old man dance. It basically consists of the preformers dressing up and dancing like old men. It was hilarious and adorable. This preformance of course quickly turned into an impromptu goodbye party for us. We were leaving the next day and of course none of us had packed but we should have known better. I couldnt have asked for better last night with my host family. Dont worry pistures to come!
Then Friday I made french toats for my host family as a good bye and thank you for everything breakfast. Jury´s still out on what they thought about it. I enjoyed it though and i was able to find maple syrup to go with it! Then we had our last lunch and headed to the US Embassy in Lima to be sworn in! Its was a really sad farewell and i was really lucky to have the host family i did. I already miss them a bunch. We were sworn in at the embassy which is actaully a Peace Corps Peru first so that was a really cool experience. The embassy is super weird though, the bathrooms and the grass look like they were imported from the states. After my 15th mini eclair we headed to our hostel. Now where did we, Peace Corps Volunteers who just swore to spend the next 2 years working in underdeveloped communities in the name of peace, go for dinner? Why TGI Fridays of course! Followed by Starbucks, a cookie stop and this wonderfull cinnamon roll satnd. Yeahhhh that money we were supposed to spend on things like pillows, beds, mattresses? Meh the overpriced potato skins were worth it.

My internet time is running out so ill have to keep you all in suspense about my site for at least one more day. Hopefully ill be able to put up part 2 tomorrow!

Also back by popular demand ill be adding what i´m eating in site!