Made it safe and sound to Lima after an exhausting and long night of flying through the night. Arrival was a bit overwhelming as I was on my own, and had to manage and speak Spanish enough at 4:30 am working on no real sleep to find my driver out of a mob of drivers trying to get me to use their taxi services! Loco! But I found him, and one other guy and I then got dropped off at a super sketchy looking typical hostel in an alley, when I began to think what the heck am I getting myself into...But then I happened to meet 2 girls who were on their way back from volunteering with FIMRC in another location, Trujillo. Such a blessing! They were awesome and told me about how awesome their experience was volunteering with FIMRC, and we explored Lima together all day. Lima itself is a very rough huge city, although we are near the Miraflores district which is the "nicer" area. Mostly we just walked along the coastal cliffs and parks along the road. Turns out my hostel is not scary at all, and I have been meeting and hanging out with all kinds of interesting people from literally ALL over the world on all kinds of different journeys. I mean from Holland, Germany, China, Bolivia, and then boring us from the US. So many different languages are going on around this common room it's crazy! It's super kinda gross living, but it's a cool environment, everyone just sort of hangs around. Some of them have been traveling the world going on a year now...crazy. One guy from Germany who has been traveling the world for a year said something that really stuck with me, "This world is the only one we have here, so I want to see all of my world!" Right on...We have all just been sitting around all night swapping stories. We leave tomorrow morning at 11:30 for about an 8 hour bus drive to Huancayo through the mountains reaching 15,000 ft above sea level at some points! Whewww pray the mate de coca tea saves us from the menacing soroche (altitude sickness) of the Andes! Excited to get started working with FIMRC Monday!