I know that I've been talking about my day to day life a lot, but I havn't gotten to tell many of my stories! I have a ton, so I need to do just like one a day or something! Centro de Lima is the subject today! Before I came to Lima, I imagined it as a bustling metropolis with chic shops and super multicultural people mixed in with antique buildings and street venders. When I arrived, it was nothing like that, but now I realize that the suburban areas are different because people actually live here. Centro de Lima was much more how I had imagined Lima, minus the diversity. There were some gringos, but not very many. There were so many antique buildings with armed guards in full military dress uniforms. This was in front of the President's home though. It was lovely! The cathedrals were amazing as well! We visited San Francisco cathedral and got to see ancient art and all sorts of lovely sculpture inside! I think I really realized the slendor of the Catholic church there! There was a gold plated altar. Like a huge freaking altar! And a full silver like person carrier thingy! It was crazy. Then we got to go down into the catacombs of the church! Super creepy! I thought maybe there were going to be like 100 skeletons or something, but it's like huge pits filled with mish mashed bones! like they were just killed and thrown in! I know that's not what happened, but it's pretty freaky! I kind of wish I could figure out how thousands of people were all put in that same church. I think you really have to see it to understand!
Afterward, we ate lunch at a famous cafe and I ate the biggest bowl of soup I have ever seen in my life! It was crazy huge! I should have taken a picture! Martine and Mama also had huge soups and sandwiches, I couldn't finish a whole sandwich too!! Of course I bought souvenirs, a Peru jacket and an Inca Kola shirt.
That's pretty much my day in Centro de Lima!
Thanks ya'll
L
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