Well I´m waiting on my taxi right now to take Dillon, Lauren and myself to the airport so we can begin the next step in our journey. I feel like I´m going to be doing one of those akward backwards walks away from what I´m used to as ´civilization.´ You know like Peter does on Family Guy all the time. Today we fly to Arequipa where we will be staying with a family that Padre Juan set up for us to stay with.
And now its 12 hours later and I'm sitting in this chilly but comfortable room in Arequipa. I had to run out real quick while I was writing the first paragraph because the taxi arrived. Arequipa is a beautiful city, it seems a lot more historic than Lima which I personally appreciate. The landscape is amazing, its hard to describe the mountains because I've never seen anything like it before. I've decided the Blue Ridge Mountains are not really mountains, lol.
I'm getting to the point where I can understand the gist of what people are saying in Spanish but its hard for me to know how to speak anything. I have noticed that words I learned in middle and high school Spanish are randomly coming back to memory. So thats good but I still have a very long road ahead to pick up this language. I'll get there though...I can do all things through He who gives me strength, including learning a new language!
The air is is a bit thinner and dryer I have noticed. We're at right around 2500 meters. I feel the dry air in my nose, it feels really sensitive. I also notice that I get out of breath easily. We (and by "we" I mean Dillon) talked to Padre Juan tonight. He said we should actually stay in Arequipa until Saturday because he is about to leave Puno and won't be back until then. Alfredo, the guy we are staying with here, said that would be no problem. He is a friend of Juan's and used to work with him. So I think at some point this week we are going to do a two-day tour of Cucka Canyon (I may have spelled that correctly). Its supposed to be the deepest canyon in South America, deeper than the grand canyon! So that should be fun, there's tons of cool things to do around here (much more than in Lima). So I don't think I'll mind staying here all week. Plus we are staying here for free! Always a plus :)
Well I'ma head off to bed now...pray that God keeps giving me the words to say.
Night!
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Just wanted to say "I LOVE YOU!" and what I always say when you take off on one of your excursions-"Be Careful" :o) Mom
*for some reason,I am on Christy's acct, but as you probably know, I'm not real sure how I got here. :o)
keep having fun casey!!
xxxooo,
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