Soccer game, getting ready for Nazca

So I put up pictures on photobucket from the game and of the apartment where we live!
http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg58/rlwheele/Peru/ password rachelinperu
I put captions up too so you can see what room is what.

We went to the soccer game yesterday and that was a lot of fun! It was a good game, Peru lost though. We all wore Peru jerseys to the game. I bought one for Jimmy but then I wore it haha. We watched a man in front of us get escorted (more like dragged) out by the police. there were police EVERYWHERE, especially by us because we were sort of near the Ecuador fans, but the game wasnt really very packed and I never felt in danger or scared.. so it was all good.

For lunch we ate at a waffles and crepes place, and I got a waffle. It wasnt that great, I miss the Belgian waffle mix that mom makes at home!!!! Haha. The crepes looked really good though. We had tamales with chicken for dinner with rice. Pilar cooked them! They werent my favorite, kind of bland.. but oh well. I dont know what is for dinner to night. Kathryn and I ate PB and J again for lunch, with doritos and salsa!

I have evaporated milk with my cereal.. thats what Pilar drinks. Weird. I dilute it with water but it tastes weird. I thought that stuff was for cooking? I am going to buy some normal milk from the store though when we get back from our trip to Nazca. It comes in bags here. I really hope it is normal because I am craving a big glass of milk!! Also tostitos chips and salsa. And a Larrys turkey sandwich! and they dont have the kind of gum I like here.. I have 2 packs left of it that I brought from the states, I am trying to ration it out. haha. I am trying to think what else I miss.

I dont know if I have talked about how different we (especially me) look here. But obviously I stick out like a sore thumb. People whistle and yell at us all the time. Lisa´s peruvian friends though said that almost all of us are ¨blonde¨to them, even the people in our group that we consider brunettes. I thought that was funny! Also, gringa or gringo (for a boy) is the word that is used to refer to us, to foreigners, but it isnt always used in a bad way. Pilar calls us gringitas sometimes, the -ita at the end means little.

When we were going into the soccer game, a newspaper took our picture and we were in it today! We all bought them at the newsstand. It was a group of like 10 of us. our caption said something like ¨these northamericans came for the red and white (the peru colors) but they didnt bring any good luck¨. So that was exciting!

I will hopefully get on before we go to Nazca, but I have some dance lessons tomorrow night and then a test on Wednesday, then leaving on Thursday for Nazca, so we will see! Nazca is going to be tons of fun, we are going to see the Nazca lines and sand boarding and riding dune buggies, and staying in a really nice hotel. :)