Peruvian Donuts

The past couple of days have been pretty normal, classes, meals and homework. Yesterday during my art class we went to a pottery studio where Mary (the other girl in my class) and I had a chance to spin a pot. Yes I did take pottery in high school, but even then I couldn't center it and now they expect me to do it with instructions from a man who only speaks Spanish! So although he did most of the work, I'm still going to take credit for it:) We're planning on going back next Tuesday to maybe do some painting. Then today our professor took us to the Inca Museum close to the University. Here we were able to see pre-Hispanic artwork, that we had been studying as well as some Inca and Spanish artifacts. It was interesting and much better then just him lecturing to us, especially because his English is choppy. Spanish is super easy, I mean yes my speaking skills are still not where I want then to be but in class we are going over numbers, verbs in the present tense and some common vocab. Although it's easy, its nice to be refreshing my memory on stuff I haven't learned since my freshman or sophomore year in high school. Tomorrow we have midterms which I'm not that worried about, right now I have a 19/20 in Spanish and in art I should be able to come up with something to write since we've talked a lot about what's going to be on the test.

Absolutely, the highlight of my week has been finding this little bakery close to La Casa that serves what are called donnas. They looked very much like a piece of fried dough and since I've never been known to give up the chance for fried dough, I got one. When ordering I asked if it was dulce (sweet) and I was told yes and that they are highly addictive. So I took my little package of powered sugared, fried dough to the street where I sunk my teeth into the pastry. To my surprise it had a filling! I believe it was apple, but whatever it was it was delicious!! When I left the man told me that he'd see me again, and he was definitely right.

This weekend we are going to Manu, part of the Amazon here in Peru. 5 of us are going on the trip which starts Saturday morning and ends Monday night (I'm skipping classes Monday). During our time in the Jungle we will be whitewater rafting and going on a zip line. I'm really excited to go and experience all this, what I'm not excited about it the ride yet again on the side of a mountain.