After 2 hours 16 minutes 3 seconds…

… Megan McCormick ’11, Michelle Mariene ‘11, Meredith Houghton ’11, and I finished the 100th Half-marathon of Lima. At least for me, it wasn’t the easiest thing I have done in my life, especially since I “forgot” to run the last five days before the half-marathon…so my training schedule was a little off. Nevertheless, it was an incredible experience. This year was especially important for Lima too since it was the 100th running. After the marathon we all, along with several friends, went out to lunch where we ate cebiche (seafood that is cured with lime), my personal favorite, and the finally returned home to rest. Unfortunately, we only had the afternoon to rest. Monday morning I had classes as usual. Even though I was sore for three days, and we are considering possibly running another one in October or November.

Michelle Marieni '11, Meredith Houghton '11, Peter McGovern '11, Megan McCormik '11 after Lima's 100th Half-Marathon. Sunday, August 31, 2009

I cannot believe how fast the first month of school has gone by. I have already read a huge stack of books, and today I had my first real test…and I think it went okay; it was in my “History of Peru in Modern Times” class. I am glad it is over, but now I am looking ahead at all of my work for next week: another test, a paper, and a project…preceded by reading for the test, researching for my paper, and meeting with my group to do the project. I guess you could say it’s a little overwhelming, but luckily I have two years of experience at Holy Cross in handling workloads like this, haha. On the positive side, I am sincerely interested (in most) of the work and I am always learning more Spanish!
Right now, I am off to study and then tomorrow I am off to Fe y Alegría (the school)! I am excited for tomorrow because it is the first day of the afterschool program I am starting and will be in charge of this year.

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