Thanksgiving Peru Style!

Ghetto Thanksgiving Spread!!

Yumm! A fried turkey head.. kiss it Dona Lita!

well our thanksgiving preparations began  a month or so before thanksgiving ....i started looking in the grocery stores to see if there was stuff we couldn't buy here... so my father carried a massive can of pumpkin all throughout peru to give it to me at the end of his trip..... it was so worth it though.. thanks dad!!!

      so we had our thanksgiving this past sunday.... had to move the date because two of the americans were planning on seeing britney spears in lima..either way... it worked out better having it on a sunday where we could cook all day...

   and cook all day is exactly what we did!! i was actually loving it even though our kitchen is gross and we don't necessarily have all of the cooking supplies we needed but we did our best... for instance.. we were using old t-shirts as pot holder, a blender as vase for the flowers (bought them in the market for only 6 soles.. approximately 2 dollars )..  our oven is so small that we had to ask a bakery to cook our turkey  for us!

    it was so funny.. nico bought the turkey a few days prior... and everyone was so mortified at how much he paid for it.. but really  the price was no different in the states.. its just that they don't really do turkeys here.... anyways on sunday when he went to pick it up.. he took three spanish girls with him.. they were soo cute when they carried it in the house... the turkey was carried in these plastic bins.. you know the ones you put clothes in.. when they opened the bin.. we all screamed!!!! the turkey still had its head..  OMG!!! how can you eat it when you can look at its head.. UGH!!

     i have never seen people more excited about thanksgiving than those three spanish girls!! carmen, nerea and laura.. they were ever taking pictures with the "thanksgiving spread"  it was sooo cute!!

     oh let m e just tell you... fruits and vegetables are soooo cheap here.. i bought enough potatoes for twenty people and it only cost me $3.. awesome!!

     anyways.. i know this blog is a little all over the place.. trying to watch a movie at the same time!

  anyways tomorrow s the real thanksgiving and it is so weird to think that while everyone at home is getting ready for thanksgiving i am here in peru where no one really understands how important it is to us... 

   i have to work in the morning, go get  a vaccination for my trip to the amazon and then grocery shop for our picnic on the beach for the kids in the nursery on friday .. so like i said.. just a normal day tomorrow.... hope everyone has a great holiday!!

my new normal!

Zoe and I at our favorite juice lady next to IndoAmericano

Huanchaco, Huanchaco, Huanchaco

it has been brought to my attention that i haven't written on my blog for a while.. thanks dad.... things have become so normal for me i don't see any reason for writing about it my blog.. but i know once i leave it will be like.. oh that was so not normal for me in the united states... so i think i will create of things that have become normal here in peru
men wearing
1. not flushing toilet paper in the toilet.. i never realized that it was a luxury to do such a thing
2. gringita is not a person but rather a color... the kids told me my hair color was gringito... too funny.. for those that don't know.. gringa is a white girl and gringita is a little white person...i prefer to think of it as a term of affection
3. men peeing on the streets.. the smell of urine is so offensive...but i suppose i shouldn't be critical because most of the people in el porvenir don't have running water... the other week one of my  kids in the PE class ran ahead of me and peed in the patio.. i was like NOOO  you can't pe pit side.. when i asked him he understood why he was in trouble he gave me these big brown eyes and was like /nooo... that is probably his norm.. i felt so bad afterwards for making him feel bad.. but he does need to learn that at SKIP we di have toilets!! LOL
4.seeing dirty dogs in the public school and no one doing anything about it
5.  RAT POO... that is unfortunately part of my norm...damn mice are everywhere in the house
6.  riding in the very far back of a taxi and ducking when we drive by police.. yesterday caitlin and i were in the far back and people kept yelling at us "down down , police.. duck" we went down as though someone was shooting at us.. LOL
7.  buying pirated dvd's on the street for an american dollar... its awesome!! i am eagerly awaiting the day "the help" makes the streets of Trujillo.
8.  Fresh orange juice!!  they sell it everywhere here .. people will push carts around with oranges.. and when you order they make it right in front of you.. the serve it to you in a glass so you must drink it right there with the cart person.. Zoe and i order an orange juice every tuesday thursday when we go to Indo.. its awesome.. it is only one sol which is equivalent to $0.35.... the lady even fills our glass up again..
9.  the buses are always an experience.... men hang out of the bus yelling the buses final destination.. for instance "huanchaco huanchaco huanchaco huanchaco huanchaco" over and over and over... and when you get on and off the bus prepared to run to jump on and to get off whilst the bus is still moving!