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Here at last!

Well I've made it. Yay!!! It's great. My flight...oh what a trip. I was scheduled through Miami but Ernesto...grr...made it so I had to reroute. I spent the night in LA and and and it was a pain. Luckily all the flights were okay, just the ground travel. In the line at the LA airport, I met a girl who goes to McGill. She seemed nice enough and we exchanged emails. Then, on the plane to Lima, rather waiting in the Mexico City airport, I met two women who live in Lima. They were very sweet and we exchanged phone numbers. They said they'd check in on me and that I should go visit each of them. Good start.

There isn't much to tell yet....I haven't really left the apartment (only been up for a couple hours) except that I'm very happy with my family, they're extremely nice, and there's a school right next door so all day the apartment is filled with the sounds of children playing :). The apartment is very cozy: one common room, three bedrooms, a kitchen/laundry, and a bathroom and with 6 people (currently 7) it's kind of a tight fit. I haven't yet figured out how I'm going to store all my clothes and things, but we'll figure that out soon, I'm sure. The Spanish is going okay. I'm pretty happy. Oh, one blog-worthy story did happen: the taxi driver who drove us from the airport decided that he didn't want to take the exit he was set up to take (the first one after the airport) so he just drove backward for a few blocks down the highway...crazy. The women in the car (the mama, Fiorella-a sister, organizer, studies at Macalester-, and Nella-organizer) were laughing/ridiculing him but he really didn't seem to care. Well it was a welcome that I won't forget.

posted by Marielly @ 11:07 AM