Yesterday I ended up taking a city tour with my spanish class going to the town market... not the tourist one, but the one where they sell all kinds of fruits, vegetables, groceries, supplies, everything you could think of. The most odd thing I came across were the buckets of live frogs that they would cut the heads off of and peel the skin and you eat the rest of the frog (not the legs) as a form of medicine. It is supposed to relieve stress and headaches... I´m pretty sure it would CAUSE me both!!!! Poor little froggies.. I wanted to buy all of them.
In the evenings- after all of my classes at Maximo we decided to take some clases de baile.. Dance class.. they dance a lot of rueda here...which is salsa in a circle with anywhere from 3-10 partners and you change partners in a circle... if you´ve never seen it check it out on youtube- it is pretty awesome. One person in the group calls out the turns and all the other partners follow, changing partners as you go. After dance class i went home and watched the Peru vs Ecuador game on tv with my host brother Ricardo... Unfortunatly Peru lost 2-1. I feel right at home with the brothers- we watch lots of soccer, and my host mom is awesome! Erin and I decided to go out and dance a little more Rueda at a place where all the locals go to dance from 9-11 to try our new skills.
This morning I had my first tandem class- which is where I meet with a peruvian student and we talk for an hour in English and an hour in Spanish. I am meeting with a girl named Kelly who is my age and we had lots to talk about- it has been great for my conversational skills!!! Next I have classes for tefl and again in the afternoon I have my formal spanish class. I will be doing dance classes in the early evening 3 times a week- so I´ll keep busy for sure!
For the inauguration today we stopped our class to watch Obama speak- and got back to business after. It was good to see and especially with all the peruvians- they were very interested. We were all gathered around the tv´s listening... pretty sweet experience.
This afternoon Alfonso is picking me up to take me to some religious festivals... No idea what that means but he said they are very traditional so I guess I´ll find out. Right now I´m going to walk home to have lunch with my host mom...
My friend from Lima is coming out this weekend so it will be fun to hang out with someone during the free time. It´ll help me out a lot to trek around with a peruvian too as they get charged so much less then us obvious gringos. I try to blend in, but it´s hard. Here in cuzco there are a TON of tourists- but not from the US- from all over central and south america... cool to meet new people. Last night I got the best compliments bc I was talking to some locals in spanish and they asked me if I was from Argentina or Chile.. I was like ¨no..the EEUU"- but they said I spoke too well in Spanish to be american... that was exciting. my accent is probably my greatest strength in Spanish, which is helpful here.
Alright- off for lunch! Happy inauguration day to you all. Here´s to new beginnings for all.... Salud!
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