Oh Peru, you do me so good

Ok. So I know you thought that I was done with the massive amount of updating, but alas, more things happened!

Oh, Peru, you do me so good.

So Valerie had some of her basico students over to practice speaking and after practicing for a while they said that there was a carnival down the street and invited us to go with them. Who knew! A carnival! RIGHT down the street (literally a 5 minute walk from our apartment).

So we went and it was amazing. We are now going to go every night this week because it’s awesome. They have all sorts of carnival rides and roller coasters, and candy apples, and a haunted house. Everything you could possibly want in a carnival. We only had time to go on two rides because it started sprinkling and then it started raining. A lot. So we decided that tomorrow we will go again. Hopefully it won’t rain.

The rides were quite amazing. And by this, I mean that we thought we were going to the whole time. The warning signs were in English and Spanish and the rides were basically second hand rides that America donated to Peru. We went on “The Zipper” and the haunted house. Amazingly, the haunted house was one of the scariest haunted houses I’ve been in. It was really short, and you ride in a little car, but it was pitch black and there was cloth that hung down and touched you. And the things that were supposed to be scary were life sized naked barbies with blood on them. Quite possibly one of the scariest sights.

So anyways, as we were leaving I decided to buy an Anticucho, which is grilled beef heart on a stick. Amazingly quite delicious and tender. We’ll see if my stomach feels the same way as my tongue in a few hours though.

So Amanda and I head home and Valerie says buy to her students. We find out a couple minutes later when Val catches up with us that her cell phone had been stolen out of her pocket. Her student, however, saw this happen, told Valerie, and then ran after the guy. Apparently it worked because he got her cell phone back for her. We don’t know how though, so I guess she will ask him tomorrow.

In any case: I love Peru. There is always a surprise around the corner. Not even around the corner: just a right turn out of our house and straight for about five minutes.