Friday afternoon I headed into Huaraz for the weekend. Our
regional meeting was Saturday so we decided to go in the night before. I met
Ali for ice cream right when I got into town….healthy lunch, right? After that
we mostly just ran errands around town. I looked into getting a hand held voice
recorder, but they seem to think a lot of their electronics here in Peru, so I
just bought another notebook. As usual we all tried to get on the internet at
the hostel at the same time so it stopped working :-P That night we actually
went to a brewery just a little ways out of town. Micro-breweries aren’t really
the trend in Peru like they are in the states so it was really exciting to find
out that we had one nearby. The place is even staffed by gringos :-P I hope,
for the owners sake, that it catches on though.
The
next morning was our regional meeting. We all collected up at CA café for
breakfast and then hauled ourselves over to the park office for the meeting. We
had a local professor come in to talk to us about tutoria in the schools. It’s
meant to be a study hall type hour, but unfortunately it’s not generally run
very well so it ends up being free hour or not happening at all. The professor
was great though and I was reminded about how being excited about your work can
get other people excited. Saturday afternoon was spent napping and finding
costume stuff for that night’s costume party……cowboys and Indians :-) For some
reason I actually packed bandanas with me, so Ali and I went as bandits. Before
heading out to the western bar (yeah, we were surprised there was one too) we
had a family potluck dinner in the hostel. Yum! We spent the rest of the night
dancing and pretending to have fights between the cowboys and Indians. There
were even fake guns and bows with suction cup bullets and arrows. Classic! I
also might have put on a show by doing the Soulja Boy in the middle of a bar.
Coming from the South, where EVERYONE knows that dance, it still amazes me that
I can impress people with it :-P The cowboy hat I was wearing at the time might
have made it a little bit more amusing too……..
Sunday
was meant to be internet work day, but we woke up to a power outage in Huaraz.
Apparently they schedule these from time to time…… we just didn’t get a copy of
the schedule :-P So instead of working we decided to make breakfast and hang
out on the back porch for a while. Hurray for gas stoves! The power goes out
frequently enough around here that people have just learned how to carry on
with their daily business. The market was lite by candles and the ATMs were put
on generators, so after breakfast we went to do our shopping. I’m actually pretty sad that I didn’t have my
camera with me in the market; all the candles were beautiful. Around mid-afternoon
California Café actually turned on their generator just so we could have
internet. They PCVs of Ancash are super loyal to this café so they tend to look
after us. That night I caught the combi back to site and got myself settled
back in. My host dad was home for the day so we all had dinner together.
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