Limeños

I am so impressed by how nice people are here. My host family has taken on my research project as if it was their own and keeps giving me newspaper clippings about traditional medicine and names of people they are studying similar things as I am. Those clipping actually have been helping me develop ideas for possible topics. I also love the dinner and living room conversations that we keep having. We´ve talked about everything: travel, politics, medicine, books...
And yesterday, the family of one of my Mom´s friends that had never met me picked me up at my house for lunch and treated me as if I had always been part of the family. They took me everywhere: I got to each Chifa (chinese food but mixed with Peruvian ¨crillo¨food...VERY good!), got to meet more of the family members, a tour of the ¨Centro de Lima,¨ and finally visited Larco-Mar. Larco-Mar is extremely beautiful and I recommend it to anyone who comes to Lima. It is a shopping mall that looks like an open ampitheatre except it is filled with little crafts stores and nice little restaurants. It rests right on the rocks of the cliff that drops down into the beach, so you get a beautiful view of Lima´s shoreline. Even in the wintery and foggy Limeñan night, the view is incredible!! Overall, yesterday was incredible and I realize that I am very much falling for this city and the Limeñans. Tonight I will be going back to Larco-Mar to meet with a professor and I will be sure to bring a camera to take photos, though I am not sure how exactly I can frame the picture so you can see how beautiful it is.