22 March
Arequipa, Peru
Arequipa, Peru
Gayle woke up to tea in bed - a rarity when travelling and present wrapped up in Nicky´s sleeping bag liner and sarong inside an oversized pink Winnie the Pooh bag.
During breakfast, Raul suggested joining him on a visit to a poor resourced primary school on the outskirts of the city. Before leaving we joined forces with two gorgeous but brown haired Danish boys also staying at our hostel, and purchased chalk, crayons and a soccer ball. At the stationery shop, our lack of spanish vocab had all four of us demonstrating the use of chalk by drawing on the floor and imaginary black boards until a shop assistant finally put us out of our misery and pulled out a dictionary.
The school is situated in a dusty, barren neighbourhood. The kids, aged between 4 and 10, were all very excited to see us and we had a great time playing soccer, hopscotch, spinning them around and putting our artistic skills to the test - learning a few new Spanish words in the process. Gayle was sung "Feliz Compleaños" by one of the older classes before we left. It was a great way to spend a birthday.
We then treated ourselves to amazing crepes, followed by a power nap in preparation for a big night ahead. Nicky however, snuck off to buy the most scrumptious, decadent chocolate cake. That evening, while making the salads for the barbeque, Paranoid Juliana was horrified to discover that:
During breakfast, Raul suggested joining him on a visit to a poor resourced primary school on the outskirts of the city. Before leaving we joined forces with two gorgeous but brown haired Danish boys also staying at our hostel, and purchased chalk, crayons and a soccer ball. At the stationery shop, our lack of spanish vocab had all four of us demonstrating the use of chalk by drawing on the floor and imaginary black boards until a shop assistant finally put us out of our misery and pulled out a dictionary.
The school is situated in a dusty, barren neighbourhood. The kids, aged between 4 and 10, were all very excited to see us and we had a great time playing soccer, hopscotch, spinning them around and putting our artistic skills to the test - learning a few new Spanish words in the process. Gayle was sung "Feliz Compleaños" by one of the older classes before we left. It was a great way to spend a birthday.We then treated ourselves to amazing crepes, followed by a power nap in preparation for a big night ahead. Nicky however, snuck off to buy the most scrumptious, decadent chocolate cake. That evening, while making the salads for the barbeque, Paranoid Juliana was horrified to discover that:
- We did not peel the mushrooms - didn´t know they had skins..?!
- We didn´t wash the vegetables in bottled water
- It was then that we discovered that we should also be brushing our teeth in bottled water.
There was a good turnout for the barbeque, had a few drinks downstairs at the bar and then we hit the town for some salsa-ing. Much to our disappointment we discovered that Peruvians (well, Raul and his friend Carlos anyway) were pretty shit at salsa. Luckily our dishy Danish came to the rescue, Gayle defying Confuscious´ law, while Nicky fought off sleezy Peruvians.
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