Saturday, February 1, 2014

On Thursday I had my first dance class. It was hot. It was fun though. I was definitely the oldest person in the class. The other girls seemed maybe 13. But it was still fun. Afterwards I went to hang out with the exchange girls. My Spanish has probably not improved at all this week because we speak English to eachother so much. They had made Danish desserts. So amazing. We are going to make them at my house tomorrow. Then me and Natasja came home. We went to the market to buy junk food for a movie. I also bought the only slightly healthy snack food I could find in our grocery store.  I bought granola bars to carry with me all the time. We came home and watched a "scary movie". It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. On Friday I woke up and went and purchased my ticket for the Ecuador trip. On my way out the door Natasja was coming back from the market. She told me she had found Catching Fire on DVD in English. I was so so so excited. Elvis drove me, Nora, and Natasja right across the street from Paola's house. I could see their house from the car. But he still had Nora get out and walk us to their house. That must have sucked, because then Nora had to ride a bus back to the house. It was litteraly so close. Then we all went shopping in the "Centre". It was amazing. I've never seen shopping like that. I was never ending. Streets and streets packed with shopping like 6 floors up. Crazy. I didn't have any money because I'd just bought the ticket so I didn't buy anything. At about 7:30 I ate a granola bar. It saved my life. We came home by bus. Now I know the bus from Paola's house is bus "G". Nora showed us. We stopped at the market before coming home so I could buy the Catching Fire movie too. Natasja had to buy more grapes, of course. She loves them. Then we came home and did Zumba. My hips and butt are sore from it now. We ate pizza. Then did more Zumba. We did Zumba until probably 12:00. Nora and my host mom did it too. My host mom was so cute doing it. Haha. She's just so tiny!!!  Then we started the catching fire movie at 12:30. Me and Natasja both hopped in the shower and rinsed off the sweat from the dancing first thought. Zumba and no air. Not a good combination. We watched catching fire and pigged out. Once again. It was fun. I love that movie. We ended up going to bed finally at 3:30. There is one tradition that I should warn you about here. It is super funny and kind of sounds like a joke. Every February (for the entire month) they fill up big balloons with water. Not the small ones like in Texas. They use normal sized ones. Then they wait by their balconys or windows. When people walk by they throw the balloons at them!!  Everyone!!  For the whole month!!  I've already got hit by 2!!  I guess I just have bad luck!!  I got hit by one on he 29 and one on the 31 of January. My host mom was mad because it's not Febrary yet. That is just so funny to me!!!  Everyone in Peru does it!!!  I guess because February is hot or something. Today is February 1. I haven't been out of the house yet though. This will be fun.