Dedication to Don Mamino and other things.

First of all Don Mamino is my new favorite restaurant. Okay maybe it doesn't beat Fanatics's pizza but it's keeping me from getting too nostalgic for American restaurants (by the way the fact that we call ourselves Americans REALLY irritates my advanced conversation teacher but I'll get to that later). Anyway I have been to this place 4 times and here is a little food porn for you...

Just when I thought all the coffee here sucks... a sip of that changed my mind.

 So. Much. Fruit. <3

This one below might not look like much but it was AMAZING and it's fresh squeezed OJ on the side  

 No explanation needed. Fin and I were in banana split heaven.

 And I don't even like salad but this was dang good. Chicha on the left is pretty yummy too.

****Also it's not even expensive. That's my favorite part.

Okay now that I got the important stuff (food) out of the way I'll give the rest of the update.

So last Saturday I experienced Peruvian health care which I gotta say is actually really awesome, the health care itself NOT the fact that I needed to experience it. I had a really bad reaction to the Malaria pills I was taking and I got really dizzy, chest pains, etc that were symptoms of the medicine along with being in a totally new place and all that jazz, or that's what I understood from the Doc. Moral of the story all is well, I'm feeling way better and the next day I was able to climb a mountain (with the help of some motion sickness pills haha)!
*****Special shout out to Aída (jr.) for taking me. This was another time where I felt so incredibly blessed to live with this family. Everyone was so concerned about me and made me feel so cared for.

Sunday morning I woke up at 5:15am and I felt pretty good so I decided I could join my group, my UNK professor, his wife and our grammar teacher for our journey to Matucana. I'm just going to put a few pictures up of this because it was amazing. Definitely my favorite part of the trip so far so I was really happy I was actually able to go.

Then I had school. That wasn't too fun. My conversation teacher went on a huge rant about how we shouldn't call ourselves Americans and Peruvian Literature was about as exciting as it sounds! I do like my cultural psychology class a lot and grammar is okay since the teacher is super nice. I'm loving it here but definitely missing home.

Anyway, that's all for now folks! :)