Last night it rained all night long. Luckily it did not rain on us…in fact it was just starting to drizzle when we got home around 10pm. But it poured for the rest of the night, and I had a hard time sleeping because of the racket it was making on the roof. I’ve never seen (heard) it rain so long in Cusco. We must be getting more into that rainy season everyone talks about for December.<\/p>\n
It feels like it has been a long week, although our routine has not changed much. We did indeed spend last weekend running errands or watching movies bought at the black market (Molino), but we also got to go out a few nights and make some friends. We both went to the South American Explorers Club pub-quiz night last Thursday (Nov 8th) and although it wasn’ t that busy, we met a few people and had a good dinner of popcorn and beer\/wine. Then Chris went to their poker night on Friday while I went out (after Quechua classes–the other official language here, from Incan times) with some volunteers from the center where I am working. We went out again on Saturday night for yummy Japanese food. Ah, to have a good sushi place to go to…it made us very happy.<\/p>\n
This week I have been teaching the kids in my class about Hinduism (part of the curriculum at this particular center). First we talked about the diversity of religions in the world, then we learned a bit of specifics about India. We also went over the continents again, because I guess education on the outside world is a bit lacking in regular school curricula. Here they teach South and North America as one continent. All the volunteers seem to think this is very weird, but I think they are ahead of the curve with a “Las Americas” perspective (which Latin American\/Latino Studies in the US is working towards). This afternoon, the kids will perform their version of a Bollywood music video. I cant wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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