18/10/2009 21:45The last week has been rather quit I have studied my Spanish and in the evenings I have been busy reading my guidebook to get some idea about what I will do when my language course finishes in two weeks. Friday I went to the cooking lessons and cooking lessons again followed by a salsa lesson. The salsa went better than last time but I still need to practice more before I can do much on a Peruvian dance floor. After the salsa lesson we went out ag...

11/10/2009 22:30Friday I had the unusual lessons at the school, but in the after noon I also had 2 hours of cooking lessons where we tried cooking one potato and vegetables dish two fish dishes (one with fish on a spit and one with fish mixed with vegetables) and a dish with dried lama meat. It was fun to try and the food was good except that it was a bit too salty… After the cooking lessons we had an hour of salsa dancing lessons. I was terrible at it, especia...

8/10/2009 17:12I last wrote on the blog on Saturday, Sunday I spent the day with Lara, my colleague from DTU who is here to do volunteer work down in the poor Villa El Salvador area in southern Lima. It was fun to hear her reaction to Miraflores. It seems she does not really think that I am living in Peru, but rather in a suburb of some city in Florida, which has accidentally been misplaced in South America. We spent most of the afternoon looking at trekking opti...

3/10/2009 17:41Today I spent more than three hours walking around Miraflores, going down to see the Pacific Ocean by day and up to Kennedy Park which is the centre of Miraflores. We had the first day of almost sunshine since I got here when the sun was almost burning through the smog and one could actually see blue sky around noon. Now I am finally getting a sense of where the different locations in Miraflores are with respect to each other. The area that I walke...

2/10 2009 16:30Now I have finished my first week of Spanish lessons and I am surprised at how much I am learning. I already find that I understand many things and can start to say some things.This week I have had single classes but next week I should get group classes. According to the others you do not learn as much from group lessons but it is also more relaxing and you meet more new people that way. Whensday night I went out for a beer or two with Magnus, my n...