

Long-Awaited Sleepover
My friends Claudia, Kate and I had been trying to plan a sleepover for literally months. And the time finally came that we could have an...

Moving Day: Changing Families
Something I really didn't expect to come, but eventually came, was moving day. The day where I had to switch host families. In my Rotary...

Feliz Navidad
!Feliz Navidad! To my surprise, they actually celebrate Christmas totally different here in Peru. The thing that's most different is that...

Pre-Christmas/Post-Prom Weekend with Friends
Once I had recovered from Prom, it was time to get back out with my friends again! I first got out on Friday night to go see a movie with...

PROM
To say the least... This is one prom I will never forget. It all started at 7:30 am when I woke up. Little did I know, I would not be...

Graduation!
This is the day I had been waiting for so long. I GRADUATED! Too bad it wasn't the real thing and I still have a year and a half of high...

Trip Back to the US
Something that I did not expect to happen during exchange- making a trip back home. The reason I went back, that many people are...

Dancing for the School for el dia de los logros
For school, some of my friends and I had a dance we had to perform. It was for the dia de los logros, which is basically all of us having...

Peru v. Costa Rica
This was one soccer game that definitely did not go as planned. Throughout the day, my classmates and I had been talking about how we...

Prom-posal
It had just been a normal Monday at school, starting off the week. I knew it was coming at some point, but I didn't know when and I...

Friend-Filled Weekend
To say the least, I was very pleasantly surprised with how my weekend went. It all started out on Saturday morning with weekly Spanish...

EEUU v. Peru
A not so regular futbol game that so many Peruvians had been anticipating for a long time finally came- the United States vs. Peru. My...

A Day with the Fam
Very much a day that did not go as expected. But... blessed are the flexible. I had a great set of plans for the day. I was first going...

Lunahuana and White Water Rafting
As I've had the week off, my host parents came up with an activity we could do for a day. We took a day trip to a small tourist town in...

Larcomar and Day with Friends
A great day was spent with some great friends! I've been out of school for the last week on break, and have been spending most of my time...

Surprise Birthday Party
I have the best classmates and friends in the world that I could ever ask for. On Wednesday, I got home from a 2 week bus trip around...

Olympics Week
Something my classmates and I had long been preparing for had finally come: Olympics week. The Olympics are just a week full of sports....

The President's Palace and Cathedral
To start this off, this post was originally called "Meeting the President of Peru" when this was just something in my drafts so I'd...

Miraflores and Barranco
Something I had been waiting so long to do... what everyone raved about everywhere I went... the heart of Lima... is Miraflores and...




















