Friday, March 26, 2010

Fotos! Fotos!

My friend took these pictures from when we had Carnaval last month in February. I could not stop laughing...I had so much fun! We jumped into the parade and posed with every odd creature that we could find. Enjoy our Peruvian Carnaval...





The floats were amazing. I'm in awe at how much thought and work they put into them. But the Peruvians are really good with their crafts.

One big happy weird family!

Pooh was so happy that he didn't even mind when I tried to whack him with my umbrella!



There was a float made up entirely of a Freddy Krueger theme. It was brilliant. They got it exactly right!



Everything's going well with the abominal snowman...

...Until he started to get frisky and I had to fight him off...Seriously.

Doesn't this kid look like a younger Heath Ledger?!

...So there goes me posing with him!

P.S. Hmm...I'm beginning to see that I pose exactly the same in every photo..Side frame and smile. I swear I did not photo-shop myself into the pictures.

Monday, March 15, 2010

No tengo suerte

I have not had a lot of luck lately. In the last two weeks, I've seen a car accident happen right in front of me (luckily, no injuries); my cell phone, MP3, camera, and laptop battery have all died; and my sunglasses broke today. Even though most of these things are used and hand-me-downs, it's a little eerie that they all broke at the same time. And, unlike the states, I'm actually very careful with my things here. Case in point, I've only dropped my laptop here once!

I tried to get my camera fixed in the capital city, only to pay 15 soles, have them tell me that they couldn't fix it, and it feels half as light than when I brought it in. Hmm...

To add insult to injury, I just got back from Lima and went to Chinatown while I was there. One of the Chinese shop owners didn't even recognize that I was one of them. She started speaking to me in Spanish and thought I was Peruvian! Too bad there's no Chinese fortune teller here or else I would get my luck read.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

En caso de...

Just so y'all know, I'm leaving this week to go to Lima. (Yippee!) Peace Corps is working with the Ministry of Education to improve English education in rural Peru and I'm going there to help out. Hope everyone is doing well.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Galletas

Sigh, baking cookies now... *Hija de Perra.*

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Una otra apuesto

Tomorrow is the day. It is my opinion that some Peruvians are rather underdeveloped muscle-wise due to malnutrition and such. As such, my gym teacher is convinced that no one in the states actually bench presses half their body weight. We had a long discussion about this, because he himself, benches about 50 pounds.

While I know that I cannot bench 1/2 my body weight, I think I can now bench the bar at 25 pounds. (I'm not certain, because I've actually never been able to do it before...Never said I was Arnold, y'all.) So we made a bet. We're going to another gym tomorrow to test out the theory. If a girl of my puny stature can bench 25 pounds, he's going to put in a bench press at the gym so I can build more Arnold muscles. (Cement and metal bar, homemade, mind you, but we are in Peru after all.) If I lose, to the kitchen I go to bake chocolate chip cookies tomorrow...

I'm pumping my cement filled water bottles as we speak to get ready... :)