So I left for Huancayo this morning. I arrived at the bus station with my travel partners Nia, and Nili. The bus ride was 8 hours and cost around 12 dollars. The bus trip highlights - sitting next to a very sweet woman from Huacayo who insisted I email her son (we´ll see about that), a wonderful meal of chicken, rice, and banana bread, and 2 games of bingo. The lowlight was definatly experiencing the worst altitude sickness of my life. At one point we were extremely high up and I broke into a cold sweat and was so winded I could not speak. Thankfully the nice woman sitting next to me got the bus attendant to get me an alcohol compress which she put on my face. Sounds wierd, but it seemed to work as I ended up feeling much better.
We arrived in Huancayo and were met by our program leader who turned out to be the only unfriendly Peruvian we have encountered so far. It turns out all 3 of us are staying in the same homestay. Its a family of 5 chilldren(age 14 and up) and 2 parents. Not what any of us were expecting but its actually kind of comforting having the other girls around. Hopefully we´ll still learn alot of spanish from our homestay.
Well tomorrow is another day and we´ll see what happens. So far so good.
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