This is my room for the semester! It´s bigger than my dorm room, has a great closet, and is decorated in orange, so I´d say I got pretty lucky.During my first week in Lima, I´ve spent a significant amount of time getting lost and subsquently getting to know the area I live in. I live in a really nice touristy district not too far from downtown Lima. Even though it takes me about 45 minutes to get to the PUCP campus in the morning, there are so many amazing things to check out in my area. My house is about 7 blocks from Parque Kennedy (named after and including a statue of JFK), which is basically a really nice park surrounded by a movie theater (where I saw the Batman movie for less than $2), bars and clubs, restaurants from Peruvian cusine to McDonald´s and Starbucks, and all sorts of other things to do. The park holds temporary displays- right now there´s an open-air market with local crafts and an art display of photographs taken throughout Peru, and last weekend there was a big salsa concert. My house is about 15 blocks from Larcomar, which is a mall on the beach. I´ve been there twice- once to check out the mall and the restaurants and bars in the area (very similar to those in Parque Kennedy) and last night to my program director´s house to discuss our experiences so far and view a Peruvian movie, Paloma de papel (a personal account of the terrorism in the Peruvian countryside in the ´80s). Though those are the only two places I´ve began to explore, I know I´ll venture into other areas and enjoy the ones I´ve discovered!
My host family´s house is the white one. It´s a primarily residential area, but it´s only 2 blocks back from the main street where Parque Kennedy and Lacromar are.
Tuesday night I hung out in Parque Kennedy with some other people from my program that also live in Miraflores.
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Abbe! It sounds amazing!! I'm jealous of how cheap it sounds for sure! I saw Batman last night for about $11 and thought I was so lucky, since I paid $20 in London to see Mama Mia (I cannot believe your movie was only $2)!!
I think that's so awesome that you placed into upper-level Spanish. Always so smart :) The one thing I miss about not taking Spanish anymore is losing those skills, so I have a lot to learn from you! This past weekend I went to Italy and it was so hard to communicate b/c it's not even close to Spanish and that's the only foreign language I remotely know...lol!
Anyways, I'm so glad it's going well for you! I miss you sooooo much, and can't wait to catch you online soon!
xoxooxo
Lots of love~
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