Soy una gringa en una ciudad MUY GRANDE!

So for right now my job is to immerse myself into the Peruvian culture. I have a list of things I am supposed to do- por ejemplo: learn how to take a taxi and a bus; find my way to the atm, the store, and the post office; eating at Peruvian restaurants; and also a major assignment of going to a language institute and talking to the english students and try and get them to come to our english bible studies and be translators on mission trips. I also cannot start teaching english right now because there is an IMB conference for all career missionaries. So a lot of the people we're working with are going to that starting tomorrow. So once they get back we will actually kick off the english fellowship.

For immersion today- one of the translators took another missionary and myself to Plaza Mayor- the center of Lima. This is where the president's house is and stuff like that. He showed us how to use a bus to get there, which was a little scary. Then we took a bus to the top of this hill that overlooked all of Lima. And WOW, Lima is HUGE! I thought New York was big...but this just seemed so much bigger. The populations of the two are about the same though. Every direction you looked you could see Lima. Also, the higher up on the hill you got, the poorer it was. We had to close our windows on the bus at one point to be safe. It made me realize how nice the area where I'm living is too. Miraflores, where I live is a much safer area. I am able to walk about five minutes to the coast. Yesterday I sat on a bench reading my bible and looking out at the Pacific. It was amazing I must say.

Here are some pictures:

This is where I had my quiet time-


A cathedral in the center of Lima.


This is the hill we went up/ San Cristobal.


Here is one view of part of Lima. This includes the part where I am living. And you can't really tell in the picture but the Pacific is behind the city.