We made it through Customs, made it to our hotel and have checked in. It is 3 am right now. Lima is the same time zone as NYC.
When I travel, one of my favorite things to do is explore the city streets on foot. Hopefully despite going to bed so late, I’ll wake early enough to get outside and see how people in this neighborhood live. The first time I went to Japan, I spent days roaming neighborhoods, taking pictures of mundane sights that were exotic to me because they were Japanese. I want to see mundane sights here that are exotic to me because they are Peruvian.
My Spanish is terrible. I didn’t appreciate how terrible until I showed up here, started trying to communicate, and realized exactly how little I actually remember from my years of high school Spanish. I used the wrong verb conjugation for querer (I’m embarrassed to say it, but I used “quieren” instead of “queremos”). I forgot the word for “hundred” (it’s “cien”). I should’ve practiced before I traveled here. Well, so it goes. Que será, será.
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