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art and food, pt.1
Well, I´ve been trying for the past half hour to upload pictures, but it´s proving to be an incredibly frustrating and thoroughly unsuccessful effort. Mainly I wanted to show off the MURAL that we painted this week at Yanapay - it´s beautiful, if I do say so myself. Louisa (a volunteer from Switzerland) and I were in art class for the week with the younger kids, and for our project we painted an ocean scene - boat, sky, waves, and various (recognizable and not so-) ocean creatures. It´s lovely and really brings life to the tiny, white-walled, cement-floored art room. I think we´ll be working on another one this week.
The other thing I wanted to share were more pictures from the Virgen de la Merced procession, as well as of some of the food I´ve been eating. The food here is, overall, delicious. The FRUIT is incredible, for one thing, and includes many brightly-colored things that I´ve never seen before in my life. My favorite places to eat are at either at the central market or any of the tiny hole-in-the-wall places that offer a daily menu for 2.50 or 3 soles (3 soles=1 dollar). The menus generally consist of a (huge) bowl of soup to start with, and then segundos, for which there are usually a few choices - something along the lines of rice with vegetables, chicken, potatoes, sauce and more rice. Sometimes it also includes a drink - usually chicha. This is a lot of food for 2.50 soles. I mean, it´s a lot of food for any price. And it´s really, really good! I´ve been thinking about how there´s no equivalent in the U.S. - places like that don´t exist, where you could get a meal for less than $3 that´s not fastfood. But for one thing, the places here aren´t paying for much property, hardly any equipment (the kitchen usually consists of a stove, a counter, and a couple barrels of water in the back of the room), minimal health code... they make the co-ops at Oberlin look like 5 star sanitation facilities. The point is: The food here is delicious and cheap and my immune system is definitely getting stronger.
Also, happy October! It´s officially springtime, and rainy season, here.
The other thing I wanted to share were more pictures from the Virgen de la Merced procession, as well as of some of the food I´ve been eating. The food here is, overall, delicious. The FRUIT is incredible, for one thing, and includes many brightly-colored things that I´ve never seen before in my life. My favorite places to eat are at either at the central market or any of the tiny hole-in-the-wall places that offer a daily menu for 2.50 or 3 soles (3 soles=1 dollar). The menus generally consist of a (huge) bowl of soup to start with, and then segundos, for which there are usually a few choices - something along the lines of rice with vegetables, chicken, potatoes, sauce and more rice. Sometimes it also includes a drink - usually chicha. This is a lot of food for 2.50 soles. I mean, it´s a lot of food for any price. And it´s really, really good! I´ve been thinking about how there´s no equivalent in the U.S. - places like that don´t exist, where you could get a meal for less than $3 that´s not fastfood. But for one thing, the places here aren´t paying for much property, hardly any equipment (the kitchen usually consists of a stove, a counter, and a couple barrels of water in the back of the room), minimal health code... they make the co-ops at Oberlin look like 5 star sanitation facilities. The point is: The food here is delicious and cheap and my immune system is definitely getting stronger.
Also, happy October! It´s officially springtime, and rainy season, here.
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