Hey everyone!

Today was a busy day for all of us! After getting back from the discoteca a little late, we decided to finally get a good night of sleep. This morning, after waking up, we had to check out of our old hotel, however could not move into our new hotel until 3:00pm. So we cleaned up our rooms, and walked down to Miraflores and enjoyed some more fresh seafood in the nicer part of Miraflores. After taking about 2 hours to eat, we walked down the Costa Verde beach and went surfing! Even though some of us have never been, it was a great experience for everyone! I would say the highlight of the day was seeing jellyfish while surfing. At one point, Mary Kate had four jellyfish swimming around her and a surf bum had to jump in the water and save her from being stung!

In other news, we are now at our new hotel, which looks like a 5 star hotel. (No exaggeration) Tonight we are just taking it easy (aka all the Wisconsin residents are streaming the Greenbay game upstairs & all the Viking fans in the other room—GO PACKERS!) Other students who are participating in MEDLIFE this week are traveling from the United States to Lima tonight. So while we stay here at the hotel, MEDLIFE is making trips to and from the airport to pick up other students who are flying in.

Tomorrow, we are meeting with all 85 participants to talk about the week and other details for the week. Since there are so many people, MEDLIFE broke up the groups into two separate clinics. The groups will run together the simultaneously in Lima however we will probably never meet the other group. We are living in different hotels, working in different areas in Lima, and doing different activities at night.

The clinics will begin on Monday and will run through Friday. We will be waking up around 6am everyday and working until 4 or 5 in this 80-degree weather. Even though we have been having fun here in Lima, the real reason of this trip is rapidly approaching and everyone is getting excited for our real work to begin.

Well that’s it folks! Ill check in tomorrow!

Saludos desde Miraflores in Lima, Peru.