New Friends and Salsa

I'm sorry my blog posts are less and less frequent. Its just that, having been here for exactly one month and four days, its a little harder to find things to write about. Well, its not hard at all to think of things to say, but a lot of things that were really strange and amazing before have become normal. So I guess what I'm saying is that I'm pretty well adjusted to life here. Its funny because you just get so used to things that used to seem crazy to you.
Anyways, yesterday two really great things happened.
1) We went to a breakfast for all of the international students who are attending our university. (In case I didn't mention this, my classes are all specific to the Luther study abroad program. We have professors from the university but the only people taking our classes are from Luther and we have a different schedule than the normal classes. So, we've already been in class for about a month, but everyone else starts on Mar. 12th. Which is why all of the other international students are arriving now.) Anyways, there are people from all over the place, a pretty big group of girls from China, a few from France, Germany, Poland and I think there were a few others...Its so cool that there are people from so many different places in the world. I'm just SO curious to know what brought each of them to Peru. I talked to the girl from Poland for awhile and she actually went with me and some of my friends to get coffee. It was really cool. I hope we get to hang out again. It was just fascinating hearing her take on Lima and how its different than Poland. She has only been here three days, so she is still in the "Everything is new!" phase. It was fun to think that I was the same way not too long ago...and already I feel like I've been here forever. :) It was just really nice to talk to someone new and feel like I am still making friends! I absolutely love my Luther friends, but we are together SOOOOOO much of the time, I really am feeling the need to branch out and meet some new people.
2) A few of my friends and I took a salsa class. It was a blast. I know Salsa isn't from Peru, or even Latin America at all. I think it originated in New York...(Could be wrong about that...?) but we just all love to dance and wanted to learn and we figured that we are doing so many new things already...might as well add one more new thing to the list! So. We had met this teacher at a free dance class we went to a few weeks ago and he offered to give us private classes. Turns out, though, they weren't really private. We had the lesson in the middle of a sidewalk in a kind of busy park next to the ocean. It was so out-of-the-box for me. At first I was really self-conscious and just felt weird because there were all these people walking by and stopping to watch us. After awhile though, I started to have a lot of fun and was kind of oblivious to the onlookers. We are not by any means good at salsa but we did learn a lot of new steps and its going to be fun to keep practicing.