June 8th - Lima

¡Hola amigos!

Yes, I've arrived in Peru. Lan Peru turned out to be a very nice airline. The flight had in-seat video (thanks, I'm sure to MASC), and I watched Ocean's 12 until I was too tired to track the story anymore. I had a row to myself, although only 2 seats wide, so I got to stretch out at least a little bit and got a couple of hours of sleep. Lan caters pretty specifically to the latin american crowd, so I've been living in Spanish for almost a day now already. It's going well, a little rusty, but I'm managing to hold conversations in my somewhat sleep deprived and generally disoriented state without saying anything too ridiculous (I hope). I did have a conversation with my taxi driver where we were talking about our siblings and how they looked different than we do, and I told him that I had a sister with hojas azules (instead of ojos azules). The difference in sound is just the ending vowel, but what I said made it sound like Sheryl was roaming around with sheets of blue paper, or maybe a pile of blue leaves, instead of saying that she had blue eyes. He found it pretty funny.

I arrived in Lima, as did my luggage (hurrah!) and the taxi driver was waiting for me with a little sign (I love that). I'm all settled in to my hotel and have had two sumptuous cups of Nescafe (boy I'd love to happen across a Starbucks). The time here is +2 hours from PST. Maybe it's the same as Indiana? So, my next stop is to find some bottled water and then lunch. I think I'll go to the Museo de la Nacion this afternoon.

Thank you all for your well wishes. Hasta luego,

Karen