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I´ve been meaning to write more about my time in Lima without Ryan, and here it is a week later! Jaime, the girl my age from South Carolina, stayed with me while Ryan was gone. She and I had a lot of fun together. We have become really good friends. She leaves the middle of July, and I really wish she were staying longer. I´m going to miss her a lot.

Jaime and I have a Peruvian friend our age, Diana. She invited us to go to her cousin´s wedding. It was last Saturday. Boy was it an experience! The wedding invitation said 6:30. When we got to the church, they were still having mass. We waited and waited. The wedding didn´t start until 7:45. I was thinking since it was a Catholic ceremony that it was going to be really long, but it wasn´t. One interesting thing about the ceremony is that the godparents of the bride and groom stood up at the front with them, like our bridesmaids and groomsmen do.

Diana was excited about me getting to meet her family. We got to the place where they were having the reception by about 8:30, and the wedding party did not get there until past 10:30!We sat talking with Diana´s immediate family during that time. Needless to say, my Spanish had about run out by then!I figured that when the bride and groom got there that we would eat the food that had been sitting out. Nope. They had other wedding festivities, such as people giving speeches until 12:30. At 12:30, they began serving the snack foods, and soon after, Jaime and I started saying our goodbyes. Well, Diana´s mother said that we couldn´t leave because they were going to serve a meal!!! We felt that we needed to stay. By then, there was music and dancing. Jaime got out on the dance floor, but I wasn´t so brave. At 2:30, they began serving the meal. They had rice, vegetables, and some meat. By that time, I could hardly swallow. The rice was just sticking to the roof of my mouth!

We were finally able to leave about 3:15, and they had not cut the cake!! Wow!!! It was quite a cultural experience!!! When we got home, Jaime and I were so hyped we couldn´t sleep!Diana and her immediate family are believers, and her extended family is Catholic. I look forward to developing a closer relationship with Diana.

Amanda

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