New country = new adventures to be had! I am in Cusco, Peru, and I am safe and well. I left Valparaíso, Chile, on Thursday evening and stayed the night in Santiago. OH! But on Wednesday in Valparaíso they had all the festivities for their Independence Day! So we got to see the different ¨protect the country¨people march around like Nazis and salute the president, Michelle Bachelet (I believe is her name). It was cool and fun to hear the marching bands and see the blue dot of Bachelet from my hostel window. It was the most Chilean thing I got to do my whole 3 weeks in Chile.
But yesterday I flew out of Santiago at 6:40 in the morning, then caught another flight to Cusco where my host mom met me at the airport and we took a taxi through the crazy streets to her house. But I really like Cusco so far! The city is surrounded by mountains and the place just looks more like Peru. Though, of course, this is a huge tourist spot, but the things that make me go, "Hot dang, this is a tourist town!" is when I see all the white people around. They walk the streets in their hiking boots and their cameras, which a lot of people here depend on. Many people dress up like indigenous Incas so tourists can take pictures of them for a small price. I have also seen more beggers in comparison to Chile. But the people are very friendly and, as my host brothers told, most Peruvians like Americans.
Ah, my host brothers... there are 2 of them. Luis, who is 24 and I´m not too sure what he does, but he looks like the Peruvian version of a friend of mine in Durango. Then there is Miguel who is 21 and speaks Enlgish and is learning French along with his native Spanish. He has been a lot of fun to hang around and also a huge help. Yesterday he helped me get around this part of Cusco where my house and language school is, and then we would just sit and he would help me with my Spanish and tell me about life in Peru and such. He also taught me how to play the digerido and some playstation game that I am terrible at. Last night we went to his friend´s house to play the playstation and then listen to 3 of his friends sing "Electric Funnel" about 10 times. The like a lot of the rock from the 70s, like Black Sabbath and Guns N Roses. But I had a good time just hearing them joke around and such. So far everyone I have met don´t think I look like I´m from the States, but apparently I look more Argentinian. I´m taking that as a compliment, expecially since I´m trying to blend in more than the other tourists around here. And Miguel told me I don´t have much of an accent when I speak Spanish! I was stoked about that.
Well, I need to wrap this up. I should probably head home to see if I´m getting fed or if I need to do that myself. And then I also start my Spanish class today! I´m so freaking excited to learn better Spanish! It´s frustrating not being able to talk to anyone, so I´m hoping I can get to a piont of being able to talk normally by the end of my stay here.
Prayer Request: Continue to pray for the my Chile group, because I had a couple more chances to talk to them about Christ, and I left very encouraged because the were telling me how I made an impact on them, which I knew wasn´t as much me as it was God working through me! There was no way I could´ve done or said anything to them if it wasn´t for God and His way of being so awesome!
I don´t think my family is Christian or go to church or anything. Pray that I will stay strong and not fall into any traps and that I would continue to seek God in everything. But more importantly, pray that there will be opportunites to share the Gospel with someone, or that God will just do His work in their lives to lead them to Himself, as I know He is already doing.
Vaya con Dios,
Leah=)
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