Half Time

Wow, how time flies! I've already whizzed past the two-month mark in Peru, and I'm sure the next two months will be just as much of a blur. My friend commented yesterday that although it seems like we just arrived in some ways, in others it seems like we've been here forever. I still feel like a stranger to this city-- a day never goes by that I don't discover a new street or a new rule-- but on the other hand I become accustomed to traffic, gotten a handle on how university works, and accumulated a group of close friends.

I've been in Lima since I last wrote, with the exception of a class field trip to an archaeological site and bay reserve about three hours at side of Lima. It was there that, unfortunately, I broke my camera. Until I get a new one, the pictures that you see in my blog will probably "borrowed" from my friends. The last two weeks have been filled with midterm preparation, and they represent the only week of real school work that I have done here. That said, I think I have learned a lot both in and out of the classroom.

Now that I'm done with my midterms, I don't have class for the rest of the week. Predictably, I'm not going miss the opportunity to travel! So, at 12:30 I'll be headed to Iquitos, a city that rests on the Amazon river in the northern jungle of Peru. Stay posted!