Dia de Los Deportes

Its Friday our last day of classes for the week and we had a pretty easy and interesting class today. In grammar class we learned how to use the preterite perfect progressive tense which is what you would use when you're trying to say what you have been doing. It was easy enough to learn because it was kind of like just mixing to other themes we have already learned and using in way that is very similar to the "llevar + infinitive" phrasing. The more interesting part of today though was the discussion we had in or conversation class. It was almost a debate but completely in Spanish comparing the children in today's day and age to those from an older generation. It was really surprising how much more we were able to comprehend and talk about I feel like at the beginning of this trip there is no way I would have been able to have had that detailed of a conversation it was a bit of a confidence booster to say the least. After classes at El Sol I had a delicious lunch from the small restaurant next door where I got one of my Peruvian favorites, Causa Rellena. I was very happy with that lunch haha.
After lunch we headed over to UNIFE where we had almost two hours just to talk with the girls about anything we wanted. The girls I was talking with were telling me about how wonderful Machu Picchu is and some good markets to go see while I'm there and also they even told us a ghost story of Peru. Apparently in the forests of the Sierra if you get lost and are surrounded by trees there is a goblin that will first whistle to you and then call your name and if you follow the voice he will trap you and kill you. It's a bit morbid and scary but it was a cool story to here and just another part of the culture. After our conversations with the girls it was time to play!. We had a full game of volleyball going which was great because it's my favorite sport and all of the girls that played with us were really helpful and taught us some words to use on the court like "Buen Trato" for good try. I had a lot of fun and it was great because we got to play for almost two hours! Then back in Miraflores I had a delicious dinner of ceviche and arroz con camarones which was just so good I had to put it in the blog today.