Day 37

This was how I spent a lot of my day -- in a bathing suit on the beach. Eden, Nadia and I went to the beach in Barranco this morning at like 9 a.m. We were there a couple hours, and then in order to take a taxi to Miraflores, Eden and I had to hide behind a wall so that the taxi drivers wouldn't see Nadia, a native Peruvian, with two gringas and so she could get a lower price. We paid 6 soles, but without Nadia, it would have been at least 10. I went to read in Starbucks for about an hour and a half until Gabriel and Gabriela showed up and we went back to the beach, but this time to Waikiki. Gabriel and I surfed while Gabby hung out on the beach, and I think there was a lot more sun than we realized (I got a teeny bit of a sunburn on my nose). I went home for a few hours, took a much needed shower and nap, and then joined the universitarios grupo in the church. We all went to La Punta in Callao. I understood almost everything that Cristian said in the lesson, and then we had dinner (I had anticuchos again). I've realized that it takes forever to do something with that group, but I'm learning to be much more flexible and patient. Now I'm exhausted, though, because I took a dramamine before surfing so I wouldn't get seasick.