Meet Danielle, a recently married twenty-something, taking a hiatus from her career as an occupational therapist to move with her husband to Lima, Peru. Read about her adjustment to life as a married woman and her daily challenges adapting to the language, customs and cultural differences in her new country.
An American in Peru It’s hard to believe I’ve been here 20 days already. I feel like I’m only beginning to adjust to life in Peru. I’ve had a lot of comments and email responses to my blog and wanted to answer some commonly asked questions… On Married Life… Married life rocks. I’m really enjoying […]
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An American in Peru If I wrote “Peruvian men are a bunch of scum-buckets,” that would be stereotyping. So I will phrase it this way: I have encountered a lot of Peruvian men who are complete, disrespectful slime-balls. I briefly touched this topic in the previous blog, and I would like to delve a
An American in Peru Being a housewife here in Peru is easy when you have a maid who comes once a week. This is a social norm among the upper and middle class. She cleans the house, does the laundry, irons, can run errands with me (or on her own), and as I was told
Six months ago, I was living in Seattle with roommates, working as an occupational therapist for a home health company. Now, I am a housewife in Lima, Peru. I am delighted to finally be living with my husband who has been working as a geotechnical engineer at a mine here for the past year. We were married in October, but he has continued to work his schedule of three weeks in Peru to 10 days in the States since). When Charlie’s company offered to move us to Lima, we were thrilled as we both love international travel and getting to know other places and people.
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