Stokes in Peru

Greetings again everyone~ I hope everything is going well for you back in the States. From what I read on the weather reports, it looks like it´s starting to get chilly, meanwhile the weather in Lima seems to finally be warming up. We had a couple tremors in the region last week (I wasn´t able to feel them, which was probably best-I´m not ready for my new family to see me whimpering and curled in a ball on the floor just yet :)), and according to Marianella when tremors occur, it causes the weather to change for a few days, so our days down here last week probably weren´t that different than back in Minnesota, perhaps a bit warmer though. Anyway, enough of the weather report, I´m guessing you all are curious about the headline in this recent entry. Well, Marianella and I had such a good time at our first wedding, we decided to do it again. Actually, the details are a bit more complicated than that, and I´ll try to explain succintly. When you move to a foreign country and want to work i

Hello again~ And I´m back with the promised pictures and update from our little side trip in Argentina. If you´ve never heard of Iguazu Falls, don´t feel bad, I hadn´t either until Marianella began telling me about them (she had been there once before). I had seen a few of her pictures of her previous trip, but didn´t really have a conception of it until we visited. How to describe it? Words don´t do justice. Pictures don´t do justice. Video can give you some idea, and we´re working on trying to figure out how to link that onto here. Anyway, I will do my best through a few words and pictures to give you an idea. As I stated in the first post, Iguazu Falls serves as a natural border between Argentina and Brazil. When Marianella informed me about Iguazu Falls, I initially thought of one big waterfall. However, as you´ll be able to see in the pictures that follow, it consists of numerous waterfalls, too many to count (and numbering more because of a recent stretch of rainy weather which w

Hello again everyone~ I hope everyone is doing well out there. I have been hearing from some of my Midwest friends & family members that fall has arrived in all its beautiful colors back home and I must admit to a bit of homesickness for my favorite season. However, our recent vacation to Argentina was good medicine, as we had a wonderful time. We split our week between Buenos Aires, Argentina´s capital city, and Iguazu Falls, an incredible waterfalls which serve as a natural border between Argentina and Brazil. I´m going to the Argentina trip in two sections, covering Buenos Aires today and in a couple days telling you all about Iguazu Falls. Buenos Aires Buenos Aires at night: Marianella and I at Cafe Tortoni, the oldest restaurant in the city (1858): A bike race along the main avenue, with the Obelisk in the background: Move over Richland Center, Wisconsin, I do believe I have a new favorite world city! My travels have not extended over to Europe, Asia, or Australia yet, but Bue

Hello everyone~ I know it´s been a couple weeks since I last posted on the blog, but it has been a pretty quiet couple weeks for Marianella and myself down here. Last Wednesday was the final day of teaching my English class, which was bittersweet. The time rapidly flew by in my two classes and I found a number of students quite eager to learn English and excited to have a native English speaker as their teacher. It´s great to work with such eager learners, and I´m sure I´ll meet more eager learners when I hook onto my next English teaching job. What does October hold for us? Well, it should be a very hectic month, starting early tomorrow morning with our vacation to Argentina. It is Marianella´s spring break and we will be spending a majority of our time in Buenos Aires with a side trip to Iguazu Falls which borders Brazil. I will be sure to post many pictures and stories soon after we return from our vacation. We also have apartment hunting on our agenda once we return from Argentin