Surprises

Today was an interesting day, to say the least.

First, I went to the Plaza de Armas with Kristen to look for shoes and earrings for my prom that's on Friday. Nothing too special. She also returned a dress that she rented. After no luck we went to Mall Aventura to continue our search. After finding shoes (S/.150) Kristen was taking money out of an ATM. She got her money, but didn't get her card quick enough. The machine sucked it back up and she didn't get it back. After trying to figure out what to do we got some ice cream and went to my house. We ate lunch and then she went home.

Then Michel came a little bit latter. We played Minecraft.

After a few hours, John showed up and we went to the plaza again to meet up with everyone to do a Christmas gift exchange. We shopped around with a S/.5 limit and met back up to exchange what we got. Then we were just walking around when a very obviously whit guy hands us tickets for "Free Pisco Sour" for a restaurant. It was strange when he was talking, because he had very good English.

A bit later he walked after us and asked, "Hey, do you smoke weed?" In a very loud voice. So we said, 'yeah, of course." just for the fun of it. He went on to tell us that he was from Florida and used to be a Marine, and he went to California and handed out bibles. And now he's married to a Peruvian lady that sells cookies in the plaza, while he works at a restaurant, trying to sell white teenagers weed.

Anyways, we happily declined and were on our way. We talked about what his story really was, thinking that he was a cop and did that just to get kids sent to jail. We said that he was a Rotarian, trying to get us sent home, and all sorts of crazy things.

At this point, Tyson wanted to go get his head shaved. We asked around and everyone said that the hair places were probably closed and he should try tomorrow. Instead of listening to them, I offered to do it for him. And surprisingly, he went with it. So Tyson, John, Zoe and I went to my house to get this done.

We gathered razors, water, a towel, and you know, everything we needed to do it. It took us about 2 hours, but we finally got it done. Now, this wasn't a normal shave with a buzz razor in the bathroom. We were using scissors, conditioner, and just a regular razor. We were on my roof, listening to Christmas music. 'Tis the season, right?

After all said and done, today was a good day. Tomorrow I'm going to get my face cleaned for prom. Why I have to do it so much in advance, I don't know. Then I'm probably helping my host mom make cakes, yay!