Anyways, most of you haven't heard anything from me since I posted about being stuck in the airport for an extra day due to bad weather. So I would like to give everyone a mini breakdown of what happened this week.
Last Thursday I set off to travel to Lima, planning on getting there the same day. Instead bad weather caused my first flight to be delayed by about 4 hours which meant I missed my connecting flight to Lima. I booked a cheep hotel room and spent the night in Huston.
Last Friday I finally left Huston to go to Lima, but when I got to my destination the airline had lost one of my suitcases. I finally got to the hotel we were supposed to be at for orientation, having missed the entirety of it, at around 1:30 that night.
Last Saturday we all finally got to meet our host families and I began to get settled in to my new home. I am the 20th exchange student they have hosted, so they were very accommodating. Also, my host brother, Rafael, is very into Pokemon and has an impressive collection. This is the first time that I have actually had something in common with a host sibling, so we get along very well.
Sunday was a free day for all of the students to get settled into our new lives.
Monday through Friday we went to the university to attend our introductory Spanish classes. There are two levels, and I was placed in the higher level class. Rafael showed me how to use public transportation around the city. The issue right now for Peru's public transportation is that everything is in the process of changing to become more standardized, but it still hasn't gotten there yet. But as long as I know what street I need to be on, I can figure it out. Also, I did finally get my missing luggage back, but my toothbrush and camera seem to have gone missing. Because it stayed in the airport overnight it is entirely likely that they were stolen. Though I am not too concerned because the camera was very old anyways.
Pictures will be coming soon.
Last Thursday I set off to travel to Lima, planning on getting there the same day. Instead bad weather caused my first flight to be delayed by about 4 hours which meant I missed my connecting flight to Lima. I booked a cheep hotel room and spent the night in Huston.
Last Friday I finally left Huston to go to Lima, but when I got to my destination the airline had lost one of my suitcases. I finally got to the hotel we were supposed to be at for orientation, having missed the entirety of it, at around 1:30 that night.
Last Saturday we all finally got to meet our host families and I began to get settled in to my new home. I am the 20th exchange student they have hosted, so they were very accommodating. Also, my host brother, Rafael, is very into Pokemon and has an impressive collection. This is the first time that I have actually had something in common with a host sibling, so we get along very well.
Sunday was a free day for all of the students to get settled into our new lives.
Monday through Friday we went to the university to attend our introductory Spanish classes. There are two levels, and I was placed in the higher level class. Rafael showed me how to use public transportation around the city. The issue right now for Peru's public transportation is that everything is in the process of changing to become more standardized, but it still hasn't gotten there yet. But as long as I know what street I need to be on, I can figure it out. Also, I did finally get my missing luggage back, but my toothbrush and camera seem to have gone missing. Because it stayed in the airport overnight it is entirely likely that they were stolen. Though I am not too concerned because the camera was very old anyways.
Pictures will be coming soon.
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