This morning was very relaxing. We didn’t have to be up till 10 and we didn’t have to travel for hours. At about 10:30 I went down and had a wonderful breakfast which included papaya, yogurt, and squeezed orange juice. The oranges are actually green here because they don’t use any chemicals everything is natural. After breakfast we went back over to their aunts house for lunch. It seems as though everyday is revolved around eating and family. For lunch they prepared a noodle soup and then a similar meal to the night before. I was so full from breakfast I didn’t eat a whole lot of the lunch. After we stayed at the aunt’s house for a while, we left to go to a small village. We rode with our new “host cousins.” It was three guys around our age and then Kelsey and I. they also knew no English so my contributions to the conversation were small. When we got to the village we met up with the rest of the family and had some tortilla like things, of course more food. Shortly after, they guys took us to this really pretty park. There were tons of people there and yes we got stared at everywhere we walked. Once again, the sense of activity was everywhere.; people playing sports, running around, and just being social with each other. There was a little stream and the Andes were in the background. The guys had so much fun taking pictures of us. They would take us to new spots and would take pictures like a photo shoot.
After the park, we went to another small village filled with little jewelry shops. We walked around for a while, but didn’t find anything worth buying. We then headed back home and got stuck in traffic so it ended up taking us about an hour and half to get home. Now we just have dinner left. I’m still full from all the food earlier today, and for the fact that they eat around 9 pm. It is nice not to have anything planned for the night since we start school in the morning and had a long night last night.
