Yet again it has been ages since I have written something so I am really sorry – it is just impossible to write regularly as we are so busy all the time and barely have a moment to ourselves!!!
A summary of the last few weeks is that we have been going out with our friends more and more and now it feels like we have known them for ages! There has been a masquerade hen party we went to, watching my friend Chorri play football, out to El Turko (best restaurant ever!) and there is a new shopping mall here which is really big which we have been exploring. I’m thrilled as they sell duvets so Hannah has said she will buy me one for christmas!!!
In the aldea, there have also been a few more kid’s birthdays which we have celebrated including the oldest girl who turned 17. Hannah and I also organised a Halloween party for the kids where we bought some really cool decorations including a pumpkin which was hugely popular, a Michael Jackson CD so they could dance to Thriller and a million sweets (all which got eaten in 5mins!) Overall that was a great night and after I went to Church with my friends as they had organised staying the night there and watching scary movies all night…it did include a massive pillow fight seeing as there were about 25 of us! Also the church is located in the most perfect location as 2 of its walls in the main room are windows and so we get an incredible view of the whole of Arequipa and the volcanoes and watching the sun rise was something I will never forget!
The 1st November was called ‘El día del muertes’ -the day of the dead, where people here celebrate the deaths of loved ones by having a huge party in the cemetary…you find people dancing on graves, hiring live music and bringing all the food they think the dead enjoyed! As well as this a children’s fair opened, there were millions of stalls cooking guinea pig for the special occasion and the amount of flowers being sold was incredible! Why don’t we celebrate this in england???
I also organised a trip to Lake Titicaca and then to La paz so we could renew our visas but that will be written in a new post as I have to go and help the Tías chop a million vegetables up now for the kids! I will aim to do that within the next few days. Chau! Xxx
