Travel Story- Lima, Peru #3 Episode in Old Central Lima

I met some Korean backpackers like me in the hostel, so one day we went to tour for old Lime together. There was many people enjoying in central park, old Lima but we had to watch out someone who was tried to steal our bag as people’s advice. We were four and trying to go and look at thumb in old cathedral. But one of us already went before, so he left outside with local guy waiting us. After we toured it, we had to head go hostel because of dinner reservation leaving the local guy. We said sorry and took a taxi, but in taxi my friend, who wasn’t with us in cathedral, started to laugh and we ask why. He said, while we were touring inside, the local guy asked how he could say “Let’s have a sex with me’ in Korean language. There were two girl include me, and without knowing it, she and I felt sorry to the guy not having dinner together. We felt so bad and we blamed him how he could think of it. And, we thought that on going to travel would not easy, so we should care of ourselves because we were traveler by each ourselves. In this point, I sometimes feel that backpacking girl alone is not very safe. But still I prefer that!

Travel Story - Lima, Peru #2 food

The Peruvian famous food
Ceviche, which is a slightly parboil fish in hot water and seasoned by lemon such Peru styled sushi? I’m really crazy for the sushi, but it was not my taste. But if anybody comes to Peru, I really would recommend to experience to have Ceviche because this is famous food in Peru.

A pose that Americans study

When I came here and lived three roommates in Kalamazoo, Michigan almost four years ago, I wondered how postures the America roomies have been. Actually, now my posture is getting almost same with theirs. But first time when I saw they were studying on bed or lying on their face on a couch, I’ve asked ‘are you studying? That was because as I knew in Korea, we cannot study with that posture. If we do that, teacher or parent scold us saying, “Study on the right position” which is sitting down chair, standing back, and slightly bow head. Korean has thought right pose makes studying effect good and concentrate to study and even good to health such as back bone etc, and blocks the obstacle which interrupts studying. So, I’ve often listened it from my parent and many teachers. But my roomies said that they study whatever they want to have a pose, and it’s effective to each person. Soon, I started to change my position sometimes unconsciously when I studied. However, now it has problem. My back bone began to get painful, and sometimes I habit to lay off my things to do in a day which mean I’m lazy sadly…I think personally that to me, grown up by Korean traditional class, I had better have a pose what I learned except when reading books.Is that also cultural difference? I think so.

Travel story - Lima, Peru #1

May 18 2008. I flight to Lima, Peru which I’ve planed to go in South America six years ago. It’s was just after spring semester 2008 was over so, before I leaved I was so exhausted because of the final, moving, raining cold weather in NY. Lima’s weather was not good because South America during June to August is winter, so it was so humid and little chill. My accommodation in Miraflores which is the most developed place in Lima is located very close in entertainment areas and Pacific beach, so even going out at night was not dangerous.

Lima air port to Miraplores - 45 sol (Peruvian Currency)
Accomodation- 30 sol (dormitory)
Meal – around 10 to 20 sol but this was depended on what we eat or where we eat.

Snapshot of the Class

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April 09 2009

"The Lover"

"THE LOVER" by Esther Leem

I've got this book from my friend in Korea last week. Actully the author is my friend, and she wrote 100 couples' love story with their pictures. She met 100 couples, had interviewed them, and took pictures of them. Last year I heard that she was preparing to write a book, but finally this January, her book came out of the world.

A month ago, I had a mail from her, and she said " I will send you the new book, but don't feel like screwed up even if there are so many swteet stories and pictures." She knew I'm a solo...

Anyway, when I got this book last week I was so happy just because I had my friend's book and even in Korean laguage. Also some of the couples were who I've already known. Not as like her expectation, I was not hurt, and I did not feel like screwed up. That might be because I feel that they and I live in kind of different world. It's funny but true. I feel like that. During the winter, when I met her in Korea , I was told that some of the couples were broken up so they asked erase their story which she couln't but she changed their name and put the picture without their faces. That's love story which is doing now by human.

Do you love somone? Then what do you think 'love' is..?

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