It’s really hard to explain all the feelings that I am having…I guess some of them I don’t even recognize. As the airplane started to descend into Lima I heard over the intercom “Seniores pasajeros, vamos a aterrizar porfavor abroche sus cinturones” and I all I could do was smile as I looked out the window over the city I grew to love two years before, and I started to think of the last time I was looking out an airplane window over Lima, with tears in my eyes as I left for Bolivia.

Wow how time flies. I got off the plane and wandered to immigrations and customs, half smiling half with an expression of awe, after waiting about fifteen minutes for my bags all I could think was “Yep pretty sure they got left Colombia” they finally rolled out on the huge conveyer belt. I walked out looking for the people who were supposed to receive me, but there was nobody. Then I remembered that Latinos have no sense of time and almost always show up late…they did show up just 30 minutes late ;) ohhh how I love Peruvians, they understand my lateness hehehe.

Every little thing was fascinating to my walking out even bickering with a taxi driver brought a smile to my face which by the way is not helpful when you are trying to get him to lower his price. It has been a whirlwind of memories walking and driving down the street I walked up and down day after day for eight months. Last night I was laying in bed and I couldn’t sleep(which is rare for me) even now as I sit here typing I can’t really believe that I am in Peru, and I still have 3 months here, crazy!!

More to come…..

Alright I’m new to this whole blogging thing so this should be either fun or horribly painful for all parties involved.

Okay so here I sit on the airplane that’s starting an adventure that will last the next three months of my life...WOW that food for thought. I don’t really know what’s in store for me but I feel/hope that it will be good things, lots of you have asked “So what are your plans down there?” and I think been somewhat surprised by my answer of “I don’t know!” In truth I guess I surprised myself. I’m not really a fan of having no plan for the next three months of my life but I know that the Lord does so I’ll have to trust him. I love the song “Lead Kindly Light” (Look it up!!!!) the lyrics I would say pretty fairly describe my current situation.

On a completely different note…just so ya’ll can get a taste of my surroundings. I’m skillfully contorted into a window seat of this small plane, my knee jammed into one of the little metal hinges of the tray in front of me, I’m at the very back of the plane so the engine is literally, literally right outside my window which has made sleep (which is my usual refuge on flights like this) pretty much impossible. The lady to my left is your stereo typical grandma; she started talk to me as soon as she got on the plane and only recently took a break to read one of the Danielle Steel romance novels, I took that window of opportunity to slip on my headphones and start typing. She asked me to switch seats cause as she said “with my bladder I’ll have to make lots of trips to the little girl’s room” which is why I’m now in the window seat instead of the aisle seat, I’m a sucker for grandma’s I’ll pretty much cave in whatever they ask.