A country I would like to visit

There are a million of countries that I haven't visit and I would never will in my whole life. It is difficult to decide one country to visit because I think every country has it beauty and things that makes it unique. From all the countries I would choose Peru. Although I think that many countries in Europe, Asia, have a lot of history and, because of that, have a lot to visit and learn from them, I feel that first I need to know a lot from my own country. I was born in Peru and since little that I go all the summers to visit my family, but still I only know Lima, a couple of beaches and Ica. Lima is very similar to Santiago, but I admit that I prefer Santiago rather than Lima. Still, Peru, the same as Chile, have very beautiful places in the north and south and that are worthy to visit.
I have friends that aren't Peruvian and have visit more places than me. I have 20 years old and still I haven't visit Machu Picchu, Cuzco, the jungle and many others important places that I need to visit not only because it's my country but also because of cultural knowledge.
All the people I know, and that visited all these places, have amazed when I tell them that I don't know any of the places. All of them have told me that the places are amazing, very interesting and especially Cuzco is beautiful because of the vegetation and the ruins and the history the city has.
I think that first I need to learn about my own home before getting to know other countries. Maybe it sounds more interesting travel to some part of Europe or Asia, but I think that everybody has to learn about its own country, reason why schools teach about "Historia de Chile", and because I left Peru when I was a baby I didn't have the opportunity to learn about Peru.
I will continue travelling all the summers to Peru to visit my family and I hope someday I visit other places and not only the beaches and Lima. But sometimes it's difficult when I'm with my family that I only have the chance to see one time during the whole year.

"Welcome"

At the end of the first semester, of this year, I felt good about myself because I reached my goal of not taking any second exam ("recuperative" exam) because the couple of times that I had to take it, the first year, it was very stressfull. Although we took harder courses, it wasn't too hard and stressfull to study because, in a way, now I have the training and learned how to study.
Beside the obligatory courses, I had to choose an elective because it is required to have 3 electives courses taken for the end of the second year. My elective wasn't hard because the two tests we had, the teacher sent us to our mails so we could do it by ourselves at home and we could use any help we wanted; such as notebook and also internet. It wasn't a very entertaining course but it wasn't too hard to understand either becuase it treated themes that we saw in biology during the first year.
The first semester was full of emotions, I had good times and bad times. I met new people (my actual boyfriend with whom I'm very happy. I met him during the welcome reunion we did for the new "mechones" because he is a friend's cousin and he came with my friend who study with me the first year of university and then decided to leave) and lost others; but with my friends always next to me to support me. July was a very hard month and it felt like it would never end and still hasn't. Although it feels like life is back to normal, because I'm busy and distract with duties, there are some days in which I realize that there is still a long way to go and we (me and my family) will need to face new obstacles.