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Buenos tardes, amigos!

Again, I am sooo tired while typing this. We had a full day! I woke up to the sounds of an enormous group of men marching in the street outside and chanting something unintelligible. Scared the crap out of me at 7:15am. But, alas, I was awake forever after that. So I showered, got dressed, nursed my sunburn un poquito, and went down for breakfast with Biz y Mama.

Breakfast here is a roll, halved and toasted with jam...and then another roll because Mama tells us we are "demasiadas flaquitas." There is also fresh fruit juice that is full of delicious pulp, usually pineapple or papaya (gross.) or melon. And coffee, praise Jesus.

After breakfast, we sat with Mama for an hour or so and watched TV and she told us about some of the customs of Peru and explained some idioms. I LOVE IDIOMS IN ANY LANGUAGE. Here, to say that someone is "gordo/ito" o "cholo/ito" is a compliment which is hiiii-larious because those are wildly insulting things at home! She also told us about how she dressed in black face for one Halloween and went to Casino New York, just down the street, and played coy all night. She is feisty for a sixty-something!

Today, we got a tour of the PUCP campus! It is huge and flat...perfection. It took a few hours to explore everything and by the end we were all exhausted and hangry....

SO WE ATE. Boy did we eat! We went to a restaurant de mariscos y pescado (essentially seafood) and had two types of ceviche, tacu tacu (fried rice and beans), a corn and pulpo cake-thang, arroz y mariscos, y tres leches cake. OH and Evelyn and Julio bought us all Pisco Sours! Pisco is the traditional hard alcohol of Peru and a Pisco Sour tastes almost like a margarita! It has a bunch of citrus, pisco, egg whites, and some bitters. They were delicious.

Then we went to a museum which was amazing. It was called Museo Larco and was a collection of pre-colonial Peruvian artifacts. The pottery was all pretty sick but I loved all of the burial shrouds and jewelry most of all! There was an awesome set of enormous septum-locale rings that made me want to unpierce my nostril and instead get a giant septum decoration!

Then we got taken to another part of the gallery called "La colecion erotica" which had ceramic-ancient-Incan pornography! Sex, masturbation, gay sex, giant phalluses, etc. It was awesome. Oh there were a lot of ceramic representations of people having sex with the dead. That was weird. I didn't like it.

Tonight, we are hitting the club hard. I expect to wake up tomorrow con dolor profunda de la cabeza...espero!

Hasta pronto!
Katy