It was our first week in Lima and being as anxious as we were to be in a whole new country and ready to learn and see as much as possible a group of ten of us headed towards the center. The center of Lima is a great place to be, if you know your way around. To begin our journey we all made our way onto a faded orange 1960’s school bus that for some unknown reason was still running. It took us roughly an hour and a half to make it to the center after also having caught a taxi to take us in a little closer. Once in the center I believe we all got the sense that we were now in a completely foreign place. There was so much going on all around us that there wasn’t one particular thing that really grabbed your attention. You could hear numerous people honking their horns at the same time in the background, kids zooming around you, people coming up to you asking to purchase their merchandise, stepping over water flowing on the street, hurdling dogs. It was chaos. After a few moments we composed ourselves and were able to continue our adventure. We saw many great things that day, street performers wearing their traditional outfits resembling that of jaguar hide and necklaces of sharp teeth about an inch in length. We also saw artists that would create stunning portraits with a white sheet of construction paper, paint cans, and a lighter. After having witnessed a numerous of new things we continued to walk and actually wound up in the middle of an enormous protest. Although I would have liked to stay and witnessed the outcome we had to continue moving and head home. Many of the girls didn’t enjoy the trip to the center of Lima due to not being aware of our surroundings and the vulgarity of the people, but the center of Lima is a great place to be, if you know your way around.
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Daniel Peñaflor21 Years old. Studying Abroad in Lima, Perú.
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