Day 3

Blog Tuesday 25th

Last day of tourism. Although it usually takes about 1h15 to get to Lima, we had to make a little detour to drop off the cutest of the pediatrics patients of the Hogar. With the traffic, it took us about 3h30 to get to the Children's hospital. Then, we headed in direction of the playa in Miraflores, the EXTREMELY rich part of Lima. Our driver, Señor Mango as Charles call him (his name is Señor MangA), taught us a little Quechua, the indigenous language of Peru. At the beach, Charles decided to get closer to the water, but he almost went swimming with the fish when a wave arrived! On the way to the restaurant, we visited the park of lovers and diverse monumentos historicos.

At the restaurant, Karol ordered the "bisteck a lo pobre", which was ENORMOUSLY HUGE (bifteck, eggs, fried bananas, rice, fried potatoes and salad). Don't ask me why it is called a POOR plate. Then, we walked for HOURS in the city (I think we passed by the same street a hundred times). We also bought tickets for Messi's soccer game on July 2nd: see you there!

After getting to the Parque de Agua, which was closed (see how lucky we are), we went back to the same street. It’s important to understand that it took us about 2 hours of walking to get to that park, so we had to go the bathroom. The only bathroom available was in a police department. The policemen, with AK-47s on their sides, guided us to the back of the detention center to the most AWFUL bathroom we have ever seen. Anyways, we managed to get it done. The way back took us about 4 hours but we sang THE WHOLE  time. Our driver was able to guess Britney Spears' song during our karaoke game! After the rocky, scary ride through the mountains, we finally got to the Hogar at 10h. To top off our unluckiness, as soon as we set foot in the Hogar, the electricity went out! Sophie decided to take a shower in the dark but all the rest of us were too bebe-lala. After our traditional discussions, we went to sleep in the dark. We woke up early in the morning to take showers but the water was FREEZING because of the lack of electricity during the night. Karol was NOT happy. Tomorrow will be our first day of real work, let's hope all goes well!

-Karol

Charles running away from the wave

 

Karol's huge plate... needless to say we didn't need to eat supper!