Today classes were cancelled again so I was able to catch up on some homework but then we had a trip the Universidad Feminina de Sagrado Corazon or UNIFE to begin our language partners project there. When we first arrived they had a small welcoming ceremony prepared for us. The director spoke to us and told us a little about the school and what they aimed to be and stood for. Then a few of the students came up and spoke in English to welcome us to the university and we reciprocated in Spanish. After the welcoming ceremony the had an interactive culture class with some of the typical dances of Peru. Each of the dances was great my favorite was the coastal dance which featured two very good cancers one male and one female telling the story of forbidden love. After they had completed all their dances they invited our entire group up to dance with them. It was a dance usually done at festivals and it was a lot of fun with everyone getting involved including Monica my professor. Everyone was holding had dancing in a circle and then they even led us outside in a type of dancing train. When we finally returned to our seats it was time to break off into our language partner groups.
We each had a group of about three students to work with. They started by taking us on a tour of their campus. I was a lot smaller than Northeastern for sure and they only have about 3 thousand students but it was really nice and pretty. They even have ruins on the campus! Only in Peru! After the tour we sat down and talked for awhile mainly about our foods and what we all wanted to do with our lives all the girls we were with were translation majors so there English was very good and they were really helpful with teaching us vocab and other things like that. Today was a great start and I feel like I'm going to learn a lot here so I can't wait to see what the next two weeks bring!
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