Highlights of the day: 
-Going to the mercado and hearing "Happy Birthday" while buying food.
-Homemade strawberry papaya juice with breakfast.
-Trying the local drink, Inca Kola, which was rumored to taste like bubblegum/banana cream. It totally does. Strange.
-Going to the mercado and hearing "Happy Birthday" while buying food.
-Homemade strawberry papaya juice with breakfast.
-Trying the local drink, Inca Kola, which was rumored to taste like bubblegum/banana cream. It totally does. Strange.
-Attaining five 2.5 liter bottles of water for our fridge (can't drink the tap water here)
-Investing in our first Peruvian candy, FrutiFrus. Look like Mambas, taste like Tums. Bleh. What I wouldn't give for some sourpunchstraws!
So we are living in Jesus Maria, a district of Lima. Consider it a nice suburb. Nice being theoperative word. Nice by Peru's standards, not so nice by USA standards. Nevertheless, Katie and I have explored and feel 24504858345083409 times safer here than in Lima. Our house is yellow with 3 stories (and yes mom, a HUGE locked gate is surrounding it so no one can get in.)
This is a view off our stairs (we live on the 3rd floor), if you look to the bottom right, you can see the metal spikes that are guarding our house! (click on the pic to see better!)
The family is a 70 year old couple and their youngest single daughter, Cynthia who is a professor at our college here, PUCP. They have two other children (Dante y Mariana) who are older and married and live outside of the house. The little kids they both have come over during the daytime and are so adorable they could easily be on the Gerber labels or LIFE cereal boxes. Fact. We eat breakfast and dinner with them, which our maid, Maria Luisa both makes and clears for us.
Dinner tonight started with a shot of Cachaça, which is a liquor similar to rum but is made with sugarcane & not aged in barrels. Our host sister brought it back from Brazil to share! Dinner was amazing tonight. I have no idea what our first course but it was tasty. Some kind of lettuce and cold boiled potatoes in a yellow sauce with spices? I am great at explaining things, I know. Second course was pasta with the best homemade pesto ever. Juice tonight- Drinkable! YES! They said it's made fresh from the tree outside. Speaking fluent Spanish was easier tonight, and our host parents are hilarious. They were asking us what we liked to drink, where we go out, and then warned us about the "women of the street" late at night in Lima. Nothing like talkin' about hookers and booze at dinner.
Amen.
Besos y Abrazos
-Investing in our first Peruvian candy, FrutiFrus. Look like Mambas, taste like Tums. Bleh. What I wouldn't give for some sourpunchstraws!So we are living in Jesus Maria, a district of Lima. Consider it a nice suburb. Nice being theoperative word. Nice by Peru's standards, not so nice by USA standards. Nevertheless, Katie and I have explored and feel 24504858345083409 times safer here than in Lima. Our house is yellow with 3 stories (and yes mom, a HUGE locked gate is surrounding it so no one can get in.)
This is a view off our stairs (we live on the 3rd floor), if you look to the bottom right, you can see the metal spikes that are guarding our house! (click on the pic to see better!)
The family is a 70 year old couple and their youngest single daughter, Cynthia who is a professor at our college here, PUCP. They have two other children (Dante y Mariana) who are older and married and live outside of the house. The little kids they both have come over during the daytime and are so adorable they could easily be on the Gerber labels or LIFE cereal boxes. Fact. We eat breakfast and dinner with them, which our maid, Maria Luisa both makes and clears for us.
Dinner tonight started with a shot of Cachaça, which is a liquor similar to rum but is made with sugarcane & not aged in barrels. Our host sister brought it back from Brazil to share! Dinner was amazing tonight. I have no idea what our first course but it was tasty. Some kind of lettuce and cold boiled potatoes in a yellow sauce with spices? I am great at explaining things, I know. Second course was pasta with the best homemade pesto ever. Juice tonight- Drinkable! YES! They said it's made fresh from the tree outside. Speaking fluent Spanish was easier tonight, and our host parents are hilarious. They were asking us what we liked to drink, where we go out, and then warned us about the "women of the street" late at night in Lima. Nothing like talkin' about hookers and booze at dinner.
Amen.
Besos y Abrazos
Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteYour dad just sent me the link to your blog and it's a lot of fun to read. Don't worry, I'm more liberal than a certain mother of yours (won't mention names) and swearing is OK with me. I just came back from three weeks in Saudi Arabia, so if you think being Jewish is fun in Lima, you should try it there! Ted
Never heard of cachacha. Walked through Haskells today, huge bottle of it on the shelf.
ReplyDeleteWere they singing Happy Birthday to me?!?!
ReplyDeletePS Jealous about the pesto....they tend to overcook pasta here and it's always soggy and generally kind of nast.