Forgot the Sun was Much Closer to the Earth at the Equator

Well it has been a week in Lima, Perú and have been loving every bit of it. I have opened up more and have gone into to restaurants and started to ordering food. It was so easy and I should of done it much earlier on in this trip but it was a learning curve. Now I go out of my way to speak Spanish. I have started to ask store clerks where stores and restaurants are. They are very helpful and help correct you with your spanish.

This past week has been great with meeting new people. I joined this club that is located in Miraflores, one of the biggest tourist places in Lima. There I have meet many travelers that are from all over the world. I recommend that if anyone is going down to South America that they find this club and go there. You will like that everyone speaks English as I did. Though they also help you so much to find places to see in Lima and get you in the right direction. They also have a huge selection of paper works done by previous travelers in the area that explain what tourist service they used and how they rated it. It is a very helpful place and it has helped me to find out cool areas to explore.

So my adventure for next month is leading me to go to Huancayo east of Lima and 4000m above sea level. There I will be in for a bigger cultural shock then in Lima. There is very little English speakers there and very few tourist. I will be taking a Spanish course there where I will be living with a family and walk around town and speak with people. Then after I plan on getting involved in there volunteer program for a week and then go to the jungle for a jungle tour that they also offer. I cannot wait to go but also too I have meet many people in Lima and would also like to stay here.

So far I have meet a guy name Julian that is from the Jungle and now living in Lima so he can receive a degree in Anthropology. His love is music and is doing a thesis on how each generation in Perú listens to music. He is doing a film and it was cool what he was saying. We also got on to talking about many other topics such as race and how he even gets bad looks from people because he was from the jungle. It was a great conversation it is too bad I never got contact info from him.

I also have run into a Canadian living in Lima teaching ecology to students at an international school here. I meet her through the club that I joined where I also meet a girl that is traveling all over the world and is from Seattle. She has been all over South America and and plans on going to Africa and Asia. We both had lunch at this vegetarian restaurant called Madra Natura over in Miraflores. They had really good food there and Juice (Jugo). The juice here is awesome and so good. My new love is Papaya juice and it taste so fresh. It is too bad Canada does not have Papayas growing there.

Although I am having a lot of fun down here I have to make sure that I do not think I am invincible from the sun. I forgot how close the sun is to hear and got burned bad when walking along the beach. But luckily here Aloe vera grows naturally here and put it on right away when I got back to the house I am staying at. So today when I went out I made sure that I was wearing sun screen and wore longer shirt today.

So remember that when you are gringo you have to where sun screen.