First day continued...

I'm baaaaack...yesterday was actually a lovely day I met the australian girl who is sooo lovely and I think in a way will look after me but mum she can't help me throw things out coooos she is SO MUCH worse than me..she has hair straighteners hair products a laptop a hair drier and SO much more hahaha. The tour around the city was sooo nice and I'm glad I did it (even if it was 30 dollars) for the pure fact that I dont know how I would have got to the old part of Lima because it is like half an hour away. I thought Lima was beaaaaautiful and the posh neighbourhoods are absolutely gorgeous with mansions and mansions all with different arquitecture some are cottages (so wierd), there is even a castleeee, and some loook like old victorian houses. And all around the posh neighbourhood there are olive trees that are hundreds of years old absolutely beaaaautiful. And we passed this huuge park with thousands of fountains that have lights in them videos and hollagrams (unfortunately we werre still on the bus by this time so I didn't seee it properly and didn't take any pictures) Then we got off the bus and were in the centre of lima that most guide book advise u against going on your own even though its where eveeerything is (there are loooads of pickpockets and its very dangerous although i didnt feel that) And we saw all the major buildings and churches and we visited one museum with all the pottery and gold (sounds boring but actually the guide made it sort of interesting and explained all the civilizations of Peru) and we went to a monastery (where I wasn't allowed to take pictures unfortunately....). The guide was sooo good and told us loads of interesting facts about Lima, he also mentioned that in Peru they eat guinea pigs (ewwwww) they call them cuy and the guide was like ur guinea pigs are cute and fluffeeey and smaaaaal (all of this iin a spanish gayish accent - he was awesome) buttt weee eat urrre peeets haha, he also mentioned hairless dogs haha that I'm apparentely going to see later on. Anyway after that baccck to the hotel where people were already sat in the lobby waiting for the STA meeting to start. We are mostly ALLL GIRLS there is one boy whos a bit older like his late 20s from australia going around on his own, the australian girl who im sharing a room with then a quite old couple from canada (dont let me get started on them the husband is all dressed in kaki and had the whole jungle explorer hat on he pisses me off and the woman is all like im a nurse but we traaaain to climb mountains YEAAAAH cos apparentely they climbed mount killimanjaro. BADASSS she annoys me haha) then two girls from WHITNEY!! can u believe it hahaha so funny who are LOOOVELY and I'm so happy they are on this trip. One of them reminds me so much of lara she is soo loud and quite out there and by dinner time she was already telling me her life story. the other one is a bit quieter but still so outgoing and soo sweet. And we have already decided that we are going to travel together after only briefly though because they are leaving from buenos aires 2 and a half minutes after we finish because they are going to australia and then new zeland) Then there are two german girls...they are both kindaa shy and they dont talk much..one of them smiles a lot and she seems really sweet the other one doesnt. HA. The guide HAHAHA he is bold and is a fatter version of JAVI. he taaalks soooo funnily and he acts all cool and outdoorsie but I love him already. Anyway so we got wat was ment to be a brief talk (went on forever though) on our 3 weeks together and I found out that actually there is an option on going into the jungle for 2 nights which I was not told about and apparently not booked in for...so it might be extra but hes going to tell me how much it is because I wouldn't mind doing it and everyone else is appart from the and the australian girl (but she wants to do it now) but it might be a bit expensive and we would stay in a lodge where i think everything is included anyway (mum let me know what u think and also the malaria pills I have are the appropriate ones which is good). We all went for dinner after the meeting our guide took us to this local place and I've been reading on lonely planet that if u want to eat fish u better do it in Lima cos its ment to be increadible so i chose this thing called seafood tacu tacu... it was erm INTERESTING. rice with beans with seafood on top topped with a bit of cheese... put it this way I ate about 1 fifth of it as I wasnt feeling to hungry after a couple of bites. hahah. This morning we sneaked down to breakfast me and rachel (australian girl) hoping they wont charge it up to the room but they didnt ask for our room number soo its all good and i had sm toast and veeeryy salty butter and coffee and sm cornflakes, I tried some papaya but i nearly puked. ewwww. ahahaha. Anyway we are leaving today at about 1 oclock in the afternoon I'm a little worries about money on this trip because we are going to be going out all the time to eat and It's not as cheep and cheerful as I thought but ahhh well...I think it will be my most expensive month put it that way. anyway im going to go back upstairs to get my stuff sorted have a nice shower etc xxxxx