There are pigeons everywhere in downtown, and when people feed them, they flock. This is outside the Monasterio de San Francisco near the center of Lima, where I went with Elsa today. We took a tour (in Spanish) throughout the church and into the catacombs underneath. There were an estimated 70,000 burials there, I think, and the creepiest part was not the tons of bones piled in crypts. The creepiest part was that the people who conserved the catacombs had found the bones in disarray but chose to arrange the femurs and skulls in circles. (We weren't allowed to take pictures, though...) We went to lunch at Pardo's chicken near the Plaza de Armas, and I tried anticuchos (cow heart on a shishkabob) for the first time -- quite tasty. Elsa was very encouraging in our discussion. And she's very entertaining. When we were riding up the elevator, I thanked her for taking me, and she was like, "Now you've met the dead of Lima!" We came home and I watched most of the Ecuador/Paraguay World Cup qualifier game before going to Bible study with the gringas again. It was an interesting discussion about how we should pray and how God speaks to you. My second month of Spanish class starts tomorrow morning.
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