Today at school we learned about the expression para que which essentially means "in order to" in English. The tricky part about this is that you can also use only para without the que and it changes the sentence structure. If the que is used you need to use the subjunctive and without a que we need to use the infinitive. Also a fun fact we talked about words in English that were translated incorrectly like R2D2 in the movie Star Wars it names Arturito here. Then in culture class today we had a very interesting class on colonial life in Lima. I finally feel like I understand what an economienda really is and we learned how the government was set up under a viceroyalty who answered to the king. Also the viceroyalty was a lot larger than I thought it covered parts of central america and almost all of Ecuador and Argentina.
At UNIFE today we had a full two hours to talk with the girls and it was a really great conversation today. We started off talking about our weekends and how we spent ours in Lunahuana and they actually had gone to the Help which is a club where La Pena is located but changes from day to day. Also we talked a little bit about our familys and our favorite foods here in Peru. Of course mine was aji de gallina and causa rellena but the one girl told me to try chupe de camarones which is like a seafood chowder so I'm excited to try that before I leave. Then we got started talking about Peruvian slang. It was really fun learning how some of our slang translates and it was still good practice because since they were slang word we had to find ways to explain each of them so we still got to practice a lot of Spanish while learning new words.
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