We got back yesterday from five days in Lima, where we had Thanksgiving lunch on Friday and presentations on Monday with the Fulbright Commission.<\/p>\n
We spent Thursday afternoon running back and forth to the computer store that will send Chris’s busted power cord to the U.S. and then send us a replacement cord. Everyone keep your fingers crossed on this one! We also ended up at a grocery store that looks like Whole Foods, where we drooled over the cheese selection but just had to buy New Zealand cheddar because that’s what I was really craving. (Its hard to get cheese variety here.) We were all set to have a dinner of bread and cheese when some other Fulbright fellows knocked on our door and invited us out to dinner with them. Friday we met more of the fellows at the lunch, but were surprised by how fancy the meal was and how many other random people there were: dignitaries from the embassy, past Peruvian fellows, business people somehow affiliated with the Commission. Friday afternoon we spent hanging out and then out to dinner.<\/p>\n
Saturday we had planned to travel but got a late start so instead went to the Anthropology Museum and to see a movie (Beowulf). Saturday night we had dinner at an overpriced Mexican restaurant but we were pleasantly surprised to get chips before our meal (we are having trouble finding tortilla chips, or tortillas at all for that matter). Sunday we went to the Plaza de Armas (the main plaza) and went on a tour of a church with catacombs and to the Inquisition museum.<\/p>\n
Monday was five hours of presentations on our various research, with discussants from anthropology, mining, and economics. The afternoon was again spent hanging out and eating dinner with all the other fellows.<\/p>\n
We are happy to report that returning to altitude after only being gone five days was uneventful. We have a meeting today to sign a contract for our new apartment…we are supposed to be moving next Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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