Mi Colegio de Lima

Ok, so I feel like I should update once more on wha's been happening this week. It's been a little while. For one, this week I started school at Colegio Santa Rosa de Lima. We start at around 8am and then on some days we end at 2:30pm and others it's 3:10pm.
The school requires the students to wear (on mon.,wed., fri) that includes a blue and black skirt, dark blue knee socks, black dress shoes, white dress tee with the school symbol, with a blue sweater vest over and then a cotton blazer over that. On Tues. and Thursdays we wear our phys. ed. uniform that resembles a dark blue track suit with yellow stripes going down the sides with a yellow school symbol on the top with either a white or yellow school polo underneath (I managed to wear my yellow Inca Cola tee shirt under mine today!)
This is such an interesting experience going to school here! For the first time in my life I'm the exchange student! This is something 've always wanted to know what it's like. And I'll tell you, it's difficult! Wow you can't really imagine it until it happens to you. It's such a learning experience! First of all, my English still sucks so it's pretty funny to watch myself try to explain things or just stared balnk faced at the rapidly lecturing teachers. The teachers are all very helpful so far and my classmates are really nice.
This all makes me confident of just how much easier learning Spanish and becoming fluent is going to be when I'm emersed into the school and acidemic setting like this.
I had a pretty rough day yesterday. I felt just more out of place than usual yesterday. I felt frustrated with my classes for not understanding, and for my teachers for pretty much patronizing me all day. Then no one was talking to me because they all wanted to talk with Lucas. Haha, I can hardly blame them tho! His spanish is very good and he's always fun to talk to no matter what language it is. But it just wasn't my day to feel optomistic. And it was a moment where I just felt really alone and realized I really cannot communicate with my peers right now and it makes me feel really restricted. But Lucas and his host mom did a really good job at cheering me up by taking me all over Lima, like to the Plaza Mayor (where the president lives) and to see massive and exquisite cathedrals and it was incredible! .
Muchas Gracias a Lucas y Rosa!!
However, it got a lot better today. I was able to find it easier to talk to people and my classes went a lot smoother.
I've also managed to add a few new interesting items to my cultural menu...this includes Chicken Blood Sandwiches and slow cooked-cow tongue.
The Chicken's blood I knew I was trying; I didn't want to, but I was up for the cultural experience (grosssss) and the cow tongue wasn't revealed until after I ate it...I wondered why my beef had little bumps on the "skin." Gross to think about, and somehow I knew I was eating some other unusual animal past but denied it until it was too late haha, but it's all worth it for stories =P