Lima day... I dont know.

Lima is a cool city, but I can't wait to go out of this busy place and head to someone near nature, and more peaceful. im not even going to begin to try to edit this so... :D enjoy

Trying to find a spanish teacher is harder than i thought, but i am picking up as much as i can day by day. Its a fairly easy language to learn so far. 

Met an american man around 30 years old named Jarod, very timid and quiet, good hearted person and ready for an adventure. He has been teaching Math in a university in Bogota and decided to go traveling in Peru and Bolivia for a few weeks. shared some traveling stories, He had been around the world as well. A spontaneous traveler just like me, follow the crowds, and see if we can find a hole in the wall that serves good food. 

I asked around and found out that there was a party happening last night near by, invite only, but hey the hostel was given some free tickets about 15 of us decided to head out. Lots of French, Germans, another Canadian that came here a couple years ago out of the blue and started teaching english and loved it. I wasn't expecting much but when we got there, the line went around the block. We were patted down before going into a massive building hundreds of locals, loud music from a DJ, and later on local bands that knew how to get the crowd moving! lets just say too much beer haha. Danced all night met some locals and tried to exchange a few words in spanish here and there. It was a really fun night, lost all my friends, but decided they hell with it, im going to keep dancing for a bit. 

finished my beer and headed out of the place... Burger Cart! I can't honestly tell you if it was any good... because everything tastes amazing when your drunk ... but it was Amazing! burger with ham, and egg and french fries, and some other sauces all piled on top of each other in a bun!. Ended up finding my american friend Jarod, so we caught a cab home, stumbled into the hostel and passed out... something about the beer here gave me such a wicked headache when i woke up the first time... after the second time it was a little less... by the 5th i was ready to get out of a bed.... mmm sleep. 

Got showered, realized that I completely missed breakfast, so i ventured down the street, got some local cuisine. Found Jared again he joined me for "breakfast" mmm breakfast at 1pm. Breakfast consisted of a small salad of lettuce, chopped up beats and a half of a boiled egg on top with some red sauce. the main plate had a bed of rice with a grilled chicken breast a few french fries and a slice of avocado. 

We caught a bus into the city this time, which got really really packed by the time we hit down town, lots of walking, caught a couple good pictures of a scenery and the hills in in the city where a lot of the poorer people live.  Checked out a cathedral and some local streets where people shouted something in spanish followed by the word 'gringo'. 

We found a hole in the wall restaurant that served Cebetche or Ceviche, (sah-vee-cheh) spelling is different to different places. basically its fish and onions in lime juices... but the fish is raw, the acidity from the lime juice somehow cooks it. It is found widely all over Peru and it actually a very very tasty dish. 

Catching a Taxi back to the hostel in rush hour was interesting, Taxi driver wanted 3 times the normal fair to go back to Barranco. We ended up splitting a cab with a couple locals and paid what we normally would. a relaxed driver and a good guy, but when he wanted to get somewhere he turned into a very aggressive driver, thought he was going to get into an accident for sure, but we turned out to be fine. Rush hour I think will be avoided from this point hahaha. 

I found a few interesting things on my journey into the city centre today... one was pork sandwiches! yes yes i know what is so special about the pork sandwich ... well... nothing... but where the get the pork is something else, they cook the entire pig whole and then shave off bits of it... I'm not sure what is so appealing about seeing a cooked pig in the sun with sandwiches garnishing it. But how can you not take a picture of it? 

                                                                  Lovely! muah!

haha other then that, stopped for some fresh fruit juices, papaya and pineapple was really good! got a cool picture of a military vehicle that i had to post. I love walking amongst all the chaos in a peaceful dream taking it all in. 

Its not going to be a big post today so i will say, Buenos Noches! here is a nice picture of the sun going down to make up for the pig  :)