Day 1

Hola from Peru!

My flight to Peru left yesterday at 7:30am. Unfortunately, the night before I mistook my arrival time with my departure time and woke up about 30 minutes late for the flight! I spent a good part of the morning on the phone with American Airlines trying to fix this self-inflicted complication. Needless to say, I felt pretty dumb. The good news is that I got to have an extremely short and wonderful breakfast with two great friends before leaving, plus I got to sleep in.

Since it was the fourth of July and nobody was flying, I was able to rearrange my flights. I was supposed to have a 12 hour layover in Miami before flying out to Peru. The layover gave me time to find new flights. With a small flight change fee I left Denver around noon for Dallas and from Dallas made it to Miami for the flight to Lima. On the flight to Dallas I got to talking to the guy next to me. He bought me a beer, likely for my stunning good looks.

Above: A picture of my seven dollar beer, courtesy of my handsome features. (Thanks Paul!)

From Miami I left for Peru at midnight. About six hours and 3000 miles later I arrived. After making it through the swarm of Peruvians demanding that I get in their taxi, I was picked up by a brother at the airport. By 6am I was in the home of an extremely generous family who are housing me for the week. They are a family of three. All of the boys in the house have a name that is some variation of Carl which I find hilarious.

Anyways, I thought everyone would appreciate a quick update. My Spanish is bad but I can somewhat understand people. I´m looking forward to seeing where I work, learning about Peru, and becoming better at Spanish.

I love you all.