Day 61

I woke up to a very foggy, smelly Lima. It smelled like dead fish. I thought it was something in the kitchen, but then I was walking to the bus stop and thought maybe I smelled like dead fish because the smell was following. Then I got to San Isidro, where it still smelled like fish, and I knew that the smell was coming from the ocean, still 15 blocks away. I've heard three theories on this: (1.) it's just the smell of the ocean being wafted up to Lima, (2.) someone dumped a lot of dead fish into the ocean all at once, or (3.) there are powerful waves sometimes that just kill a lot of fish at once. Don't know who to believe. I had my final exam for my Spanish class, and then bought some bananas, Gatorade and crackers for my roommate Elsa on the way home -- she had been throwing up violently for about three hours in the middle of the night, apparently. Poor thing. Meredith suspects food poisoning, although we have no idea the source. I hung out at home, helped Meredith make lunch and then we ate together. Since it was the two of us, we got to speak in English, which was nice. Later, I went with her to run an errand or two, and we ended up getting some ice cream and sitting on the steps outside the residencial eating it. Good quality time. Then Dave canceled class because he's still sick, so I hung out with Eden. We had considered going to the Andrea Bocelli concert, but it was sold out, so we went to some art galleries, the Inca market, and dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant instead. The market was fun -- I'm starting to load up on souvenirs. We went to two different art galleries (the first is pictured above). It was really fun, especially to go with an art teacher. We had dinner at a place called Cafe Beirut, which was quite tasty. We got a little bit molested on Pizza Street, where all the discotecas are (Eden's still a little traumatized...) And we ended the night with some carrot cake, coffee and playing Mancala at a little coffee shop in Miraflores. It was a really awesome little place, but neither of us could remember the rules to Mancala, so Eden won. It was almost like Calvin ball with her just making up rules all over the place... (just kidding).