I've been trying to learn Aymara and Quechua lately so I can talk to the older people but oh my goodness those languages are impossible, all I hear when they speak is their mouth clicking and popping it's such a strange language. The culture here is awesome though I love it. The amount of Incan inspired things is crazy. Yesterday, (new year's day) there was a giant parade and dancing in the plazas and everyone was wearing the coolest clothing. It made me want to watch the Book of Life haha. Last week we ate Calzones in Puno which was the greatest food I've eaten on my mission so far.
It's been freezing and cold and rainy and miserable lately which also means there's never any light, but it's so much different than California so I'm enjoying it. We only have a penisonista for lunch so I found a gold mine of cereal in this little store cause no one eats cereal here. So now I'm livin it up every morning eating Spanish coco puffs with chocolate milk.
My spanish is still improving every day, now it just depends on who's talking to me that I can understand. Some people are just plain impossible to understand cause the Peruvian way to speak spanish is just not to open your mouth I guess. Some people I can understand 100%, it just really depends on the person now. I'm cold and wet but I'm loving it here, my companion goes home in 5 weeks so he's a little trunky Elder right now but I make him work harder than he wants too. I hope I stay here a lot longer than expected because I feel like there's so much work to be done here, I just need more time. Hope you all had an awesome new years. Crazy that it's 2017 already. I've heard this awesome quote many times on my mission- "I'm away from my family for 2 years so that others can be with theirs for eternity" 2017 will be the longest year of my mission and I'm sure it'll be awesome, love you all and have a good week! Proverbs 3:5-6
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