Our very first group for English celebrating and they are from left to right – Pilar, Trini, Maria Teresa, Marion, self, Juana, Paolo and Antonio. Joao and Claudia are in front and Gladys was the only person missing. She lives way up in Valle Sagrado and could not be contacted.
We had a delightful meal of champagne and ‘Lomo Saltado’ - a beef and onion stir fry mingled with French fries and served on rice. Absolutely hopeless for the diet but amazingly good for the taste buds!
All the group took turns to speak and what they said was amazing. Then they made a presentation to each of us of matching T-shirts with appropriate messages.Marion’s reads ‘Soy la engreída de Perú’ – ‘I have embraced Peru’ and mine says ‘Yo vivo en Perú’ – ‘I live in Montenegro’ The joke behind mine is that this line was one of the very first I mastered in Spanish and the class continually loved to ask me where I lived, much to their amusement!
Are Paolo and Antonio enjoying themselves or are they planning ways of avoiding the dance floor?
As with every gathering we have attended dancing always takes a priority, the Peruvians just love to get up and dance. One of the favourites at this gathering was ‘The Macarena’, with all the right moves.
Joao was the DJ for the afternoon by supplying the music through the internet.
Pilar’s mother, Peta, took great delight in presenting me with one of her cuy, guinea pigs. She knows exactly what I think of cuy as a meal! This little fellow will not take too long before he is on the menu.
