Guarantee forms

I opened my email yesterday to find that my guarantee forms had finally arrived, sent a few days ago from my country officer here.  I opened them to find that I will indeed be living in San Isidro, Lima (good, no surprises there) and will go to Colegio Santa Rosa de Lima, in San Borja (it's close to where I live).  I also received a list of rules, and a list of events and trips for the 2013-2014 year.  I discovered that, starting the 30th of July (two days after I arrive)  all the students in Lima will gather from 9 AM to 1 PM for spanish classes, so that should be cool!  I sent the info to my travel agent, so I should know my flight schedule and departure time pretty soon.  Typically receiving your guarantee forms is a pretty momentous event for an exchange student, because it means you can finally apply for your visa... well lucky me, I don't even have to apply for a visa for Peru, or at least not right now ;) (apparently Rotary will help me with that in Peru).  Still, it was pretty nice to get official info! 

Unfortunately, I also just realized that I threw away the packing list I'd been working on.  It was quite extensive, with every item that I thought I would need, and I think that on the last day of school I tossed it away with all the papers in my binder.  Oh well, I'll just have to restart.

I'm about a week or so into summer.  I think I'll make some more pins and rewrite my packing list within the next few weeks.  Also, I bought a ukulele because.... I wanted to learn how to play a ukulele.  So... we'll see how that goes lol.  Next weekend there will be a Bon Voyage Party for the outbounds to Chile, Peru, and Colombia and the inbounds are invited too.  Unfortunately, Merissa, the inbound in Peru, won't have returned yet so she won't be able to make the party.  But thats okay, I've talked to her a bit on facebook.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to spice up this blog right now.  I feel like it's kind of boring now, but hopefully once I leave, it'll pick up a bit.  So stay tuned!! :)

-Ginger

DAYS TO PERU:  43