Rotary Weekend Getaway

The first weekend of May, my Rotary club decided to surprise the students of the club with a weekend getaway. So Saturday morning (5 de Mayo), I took the bus to my counselors house to help load up her car. After taking down coolers, air mattresses, and sheets; my counselor, her husband, her son, and I all loaded into the car and headed to a a different part of the city. We were headed to my first host family's house so that we could pick up my first host mom and Emma (an exchange student from France currently living in my first home). Once we were all crammed into the car, we set off on the journey to one of the beaches south of Lima. We quickly stopped at the house and unloaded the car before leaving for lunch, where we met up with the other half our entourage. Jeanne's first host family (which was my host aunt and uncle in my first family), their exchange student Malin (USA), Jeanne, and Dominik. While the second group had already eaten, we all sat down so that my group could eat. During lunch there was a drummer that was quite entertaining (dancing and singing included). After lunch we walked around the beach, although it was quite cloudy (its autumn). Before heading back to the house, we stopped for a tour of a "castle". In reality it was a very poor looked after in need of repairing mansion. But nonetheless it was something new.

My fav Frenchie!

After our beach walk we went to the beach house and got settled in a little bit. The adults went into cooking the dinner while the teenagers all left to enjoy the beach. After a while, we headed back to the house, (it was a little windy right by the coast with no sun). We all decided to watch a movie until the food was done. After a while we were all chowing down on Barbecue (no rice was in sight!). After dinner, we all cleaned up before turning on some music and dancing around the rooftop. Afterwards the teenagers went back to the beach to listen to the waves and see the stars.


The next morning we woke up and packed up for Lunahuana. Its a small city to the south of Lima, where white water rafting, zip lining, and quads are all popular tourist destinations. After searching for the right place, we all found one and after a while boarded a van that took us down to the river. It was decided that the exchange students and siblings would be in one boat while the Rotarians and host parents would be in the other. Going down the river was very fun and by the end we were all soaked. Too soon the ride was over, and we all dried off and set back home for the city.