it's been fiestas patrias for a few days now- peru's day of independence that coincides with santa eulalia's founding.
so of course, it's party time in the streets for 4 solid days.
we got thursday and friday off to celebrate with the family and to do some more diagnostics of our current city, to practice for the first 3 months on site, which meant i ate so much food, i question the size of my stomach relative to the other organs in my body. i'm pretty sure parts of my other organs have decided to ban together with the stomach to create one mega-stomach. i only really need one lung and one kidney, in the end.
i also went camping at this park. can i just say, i did not enjoy sleeping in the tent made for couples? there were 7 of us, and 2 tents that would fit 2 ppl snugly. maximum. so i ended up staying up all night, trying to not pass out (read: i failed many times) and went to sleep in the tent come morning.
yes, i did come home from this trip and immediately go to bed for a solid 9 hours. awesome.
but today? today i watched a no rules horse race. yea. it started at the top of one mountain side, across towards the other side, and down. horse races are amazing and thankfully, no one was dreadfully hurt this year as they had been years before, but that's mostly because they decided to end the race prior to what they called "la curva," or "the curve" where in previous years had lead to heads and horses being slammed against pointy rocks. erp durp.
still, the caballeros who decided to have a glass or 2 of liquid courage prior to the race found themselves thrown onto dirt paths and more pointy rocker. mmm... well done, boys. well done.
oh! and a few aspirantes ran a race yesterday. i believe they had all believed it to be an easy 4 or so mile race, only to find themselves still running past the 7 mile mark. but congratulations to one volunteer who won 2nd place!! i believe she will be throwing a wee bit of a fiesta with her prize money, but that's more likely chisme than truth. only because i just made that up right now.
tomorrow is the day i will watch some torros die :( sad, but i do want to watch it simply for the experience. i doubt i'll ever watch it again because watching animals die doesn't seem like fun. if anything, it seems sad. but i said i wanted to experience perú and even if this is part of the culture that i don't agree with, i will be able to at least say that i've seen it and have reason for disagreeing with it.
also, i have tons of laundry. can i just say, i don't enjoy doing laundry? i didn't like it in the states, and it's worse here because i have to do it by hand. a load of laundry takes like 3hours to do on my own. but i love love love it when my host mom helps me and things go more quickly.
now i'm going to eat a coveted piece of chocolate i brought from the states (a twix. om nom nom) and sit around, wishing i had friends who would write to me (THIS IS ME STARING FIXEDLY IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION) because i have yet to receive a single letter or package since being away. can you feel my jealousy at other aspirated who are weighed down with 8 or 9 packages filled with goodies and love? because it's a pretty dangerous stare. the drooling probably doesn't help.
peace.
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