Estuve en Peru!
Peru es incredible!

Let me start at the beginning:

My previous host family is Peruvian, they planed to spend 3 weeks in Peru and invited me for these awesome “vacation-weeks”! I was sooo happy!!!

Peru is a wonderful country, it is amazing. There are so many places which look like a desert, but Peru has a very rich soil with lots of minerals, so next to the “desert” you can see the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen.

I would like to tell you three main parts about my trip to Peru:
We spent about a week in a beach house; Playa Misterio. It was awesome! The house was located directly at the beach and it was beautiful. I met many nice people and I played a lot of tennis and beach volleyball! The other two weeks, we stayed in an apartment in Lima. There my sight-seeing tour started; I saw so many museums about the Incas, the history of Peru, gold and silver arts, paintings and so on . I went to the congress and Lima’s famous cathedral which was very pretty! I saw catacombs with real bones in it…It was impressive!
And by the way: The Peruvian food is the best! We always had a private cook who cooked delicioso. If you go to a Peruvian restaurant you will get the freshest food you have ever tasted: fish, meat, fruits, vegetables, ..
Everything what you have read was positive about Peru and Lima, till now;

Peru is a country of contrast. I have never seen such luxury and poverty at the same time.
 

You have to imagine there are parts where the people build their houses with mud and quincha. They do not have water; they buy their water in buckets. They do not have a kitchen sink, a shower or a toilet.
Well, I went to the town Chincha, to a part of Chincha where they do not have water. My sponsor Club – the Rotary Club of Pembroke Pines – had a project with this city. They collect enough money so that those people will have a water system in about two months.
We had a little ceremony and it was sooo wonderful to see those poor people being sooo happy and lucky for getting water.

I also attended two Rotary meetings. The meetings were different but very interesting. They did not know the four-way-test and they did not wear their pins. I had a lunch-meeting with the Rotary Club de Lima; I met a person there who has been a Rotarian for more than fifty years!!!!!!!!!!!

Then the Rotary Club Lima Sunrise: that was a very international meeting. Five of us were German, two of us were Finnish, one young man from England, about four Peruvians and the others were from the states. It was a very nice meeting and everyone was very friendly. So I can say: Rotary makes you feel home. Whether it is in Germany, USA, Peru or anywhere else!!
Thank You, Rotary!

And a special thank you goes to Ruben, Anita and Joey Levy for taking me with them to that special Peru-Trip.