Friday night a bunch of us got together at Sabrina’s house
to try out Peru’s famous Pisco Sour. Her parents are super fun and made them
for us. I was expecting a Midori Sour type drink, but it was very different!
The ingredients include Pisco (a type of brandy), lime juice, egg whites
(whipped to create a frothy layer on top), and a dash cinnamon. They were muy
suave! Very strong but smooth and the egg white took off the edge a bit.
Sabrina’s parents (and the hippest abuela I’ve ever met) were such fun hosts!
They made lots of yummy food, danced with us, and had us play musical chairs,
which turned out to be tons of fun!
After that, the 15 of us headed into Chosica to dance at the
discotecha. There we met up with probably 20 more volunteers. The Peace Corps
has a rule of avoiding groups of more than 20 people for safety reasons as big
groups draw attention. With our large group, it is very hard to do. There
weren’t many Peruvians out so we kind of took over the discotecha. It was fun
to dance with each other, and let loose!
Saturday night we went to a town fiesta to celebrate the
founding of that specific town, 3 de Octubre. It was founded on October 3rd
believe it or not, but they had to celebrate a weekend early because it’s Election
Day next weekend! We saw some traditional dances of Peru, complete with awesome
outfits. There was a lot of music and dancing after that. Then at midnight they
let off fireworks. We were standing in a basketball court and they were
literally firing off the fireworks into the sky from a rooftop right by us.
They felt sooo close!
After that, they did something super cool: The made a papier-mâché
type bull that a person can stand inside and run around. Then they attached
firework sparkers to the bull. When they lit it, the bull was spraying huge
streams of sparks and running towards groups of people! I’ve never seen
anything like it and I’m surprised and glad nothing caught on fire! It was
really awesome to see and experience though. I’ve found that Peruvians enjoy
finding any excuse to celebrate, and I love itJ
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