A Pachacamac

Day 4 of classes today started with review of the Imperative forms and after reviewing I found that I was better at it than I thought. In using it yesterday in conversation it must have helped because the forms came much more naturally. Andres then moved on to our next topic which is Pluperfect in the the past. I learned that this tense is used when there are two actions actions in the past and you're talking about the firt action that happened already and from this I learned the word "ya" is generally used with this tense because it translates to "already". I found this tense surprisingly easy because you really only need to remember the imperfect conjugations of haber and then for most verbs just the endings -ido for ir and er verbs and -ado for ar verbs.  By the way I took a picture of the school so that everyone can see.

Anyways  for the next part of class Romeo led a conversation about things we had done before coming to Peru which made us use the Past Pluperfect. But the most interesting part of todays class was the culture class. We learned about the cultures of Paracas and Nazca. I found Paracas particularly interesting as we talked about how the Paracan peopl buried their deads in budles of many types of cloths and when someone really wealthy or important died they believe that they killed that person's servants as well and buried them with him so they could serve him in the afterlife. Also we learned that Paracas was a Pre-Incan culture that found a way to basically do brain surgery with obsidian blades which was really fascinating for me being a Health Science major.

   Then came today's excursion to Pachacamac the ruins in Lima where ancient people from all around came to see the oracle. Pachacamac was an incredible place where we were able to see how three different cultures from different time periods (Huari, Ischma, and the Incans) were able to influence these sacred grouds. Matching with the three different groups were three temples with the largest and highest up being the Incan Temple of the Sun which was actually built by the Ischma. The story behind that is that when the Incans came to conquer them instead of fighting they said that under their new Incan rule the Ischma people could keep their religion and live as they did but in order to do that they also needed to build a new temple for the Incans. So instead of fighting the Incans the Ischma built the Templo del Sol. THe view from the top was amazing you could see everything for miles even with it being cloudy. It truly makes me excited for Machu Picchu.