One month has come and gone

Wow it is hard to think that one month has passed since being here! seriously time has flew by so fast. This is the last week of class and then next week I´m off to climb Machu Pichu!!! However there is a lot to still get gone before that time comes.

This week was a little more laid back then the last. Our group had an economic speaker come in and talk about the differences in Peru economics compared to the US. It was verry interesting from a business major point of view to hear how things are run here. Very much different then the US and what the government lets ¨slide by¨ here in Peru. Tues we then visited a Museum of Currency and we got to see all the different currencys Peru has had over the years. It was very interesting to see what their coins and bills looked like years ago and what they are currenlty look like and called. Some time ago it was called ¨Real¨ then the ¨Sol¨ and now the ¨Nuevo Sol¨. Anyway, Wed. was an exciting day for everyone. Jerrell and Jane (our leaders) tricked us all and had on the schedule that we were going to a bank. However, they didn´t share with us that we had actually gone there on Tues. so Wed. was spent talking and handing out envelops to each person. Inside each envelop was our placement for service. We waited and then opened them together. As i opened mine and read it, I learned I would be in a city named Caraz in Ancash. It´s about 7 hours from Lima. There I will be working as a teacher assistant in a preschool! How weird is that. Not like I haven´t spent time in a classroom helping my mom out or anything! :) It should be a great learning experience, since hey i get to go back to Preschool again except this time i get to learn Spanish! Emily and I will be living together in the same house, but doing different service assignments. The both of us will be within walking distance of Ben an donly an hour or so away from 2 other groups of 2. From what i have heard it is very nice and beautiful. We are right next to the 2nd tallest mountain in South America so we plan on spanding some time climbing up a little ways.
Friday we spent the entire day driving to Chinca and seeing the vast difference between busy Lima and Chinca. Things were a lot more calm and peaceful as well as more run down. It was a nice break from what we have been seeing the past month and we got to climb up a mountain or hilll i´m not really sure what it was but i had a blast and got some pretty sweet pictures!
OHHHH best part! Believe it or NOT! But i chewed on COW STOMACH! yup i sure did! I tried to swollow it but to spare you all I´l just say it wasn´t going so i didn´t swollow but it was in my mouth and chewing on it for a good amount of time. it was like rubber and weird texture but hey Funk paid me a sol to do it, which now thinking aobut it is only .30 cents haha but whatever! I did it anyways! :)