First Entry

Bienvendios a Todo,
Finaly I got my blog up and running. I plan to do enteries as frequently as possible. Who knows how frequently that will be?
I am living in a district outside of LIma more or less an hour. I live in my own house, but it is in a compound with someother members of my family. I have a host mother (Lidia), father (Rafeal), four sisters (all named Maria, but we call them Mariasela, Maru, Antuenette, and Isella), a brother (Edson), a niece (Maria aka Fernada), a nephew (Andres), three dogs (Marcelino, Chata, and Cuto), and of course a Roster (It is not normal to name rosters).
I have been playing five times a week in the barrio's anniversery soccer tournament. Our Peace Corps team is winless, but what we lose in game we gain in cultural assimilation.
Our first weekend here our barrio had an increadable fiesta that was basically 56 straight hours of the same song, beautiful costumes, and drinking.
Last weekend a host father had a bbq at his house which was also awesome. We had cow heart kababs that were some of the best meat I have ever eaten. I was affraid that the food here would be really bland like the dominican, but I was very wrong. They have this sause called aji. It can be made in many various ways but is always spicy. I also have eaten Pirana, cow intestines, and civiche (fish cooked with citric acid and nothing else). I got kind of sick from the civiche.
My best story as of yet hapened on my second night here. We were all sitting at the dinner table talking, when all of a sudden my family all got up and started to move outside. The dogs were barking and my family was telling me to stay calm (as I was looking very confused, being the only one still sitting down). They encouraged me to move outside and I did.
I guess there was an earthquake and I had no idea.
The tranning is very long and labor intensive. As in the application prosess they are very vauge and somewhat misleading. The tough part is they waqnt us to ask questions and their response to them is alway, "What do you think?"
I am having a great time and plan to get pictures up soon.
MAteo Alejandro Oeste