A Week in Review
Sunday, July 1st, 2007FYI: Photos updated in last post. Now on with the story…
Who said volunteering doesn’t pay?! On Wednesday I got my first pay check in the form of a toothbrush, mouthwash, dental floss, deodorant and two bars of soap. Before you start, everyone got them. I think they were meant for the theatre festival participants who didn’t show up. One plane never arrived and the New Zealanders got sick. I thought they were a strange gift at first but it’s practical, and I was about to go looking for floss so I’m happy.
I know I said I wouldn’t blog the whole time until I start travelling and having more to write than ‘I went to work today’ so I hope it’s okay if I just quickly (yeah right) sum up the week in one entry. The week, besides Friday, because that day was so crazy, it’s going to get it’s very own.
As well as hygiene products I also get more food here than three of me could eat. We have a ‘think chicken’ motto; pretend everything is chicken! The rib cage of Tuesday’s animal was too small to possibly be chicken but I still repeated our motto while I ripped off a bit of meat. You have to be careful in a country where guinea pigs are a speciality. Wednesday lunchtime I had one of my ‘what am I doing here’ moments. I was optimistic entering the kitchen because the last time we’d had lunch in the home it had been mashed potato. I hope my stunned expression wasn’t too obvious! One half of the plate was white, the other was green and on top was some red stuff. The white stuff was clearly rice, the green turned out to be mushy peas but the red is still a mystery. It seemed to be onion and frankfurters in a red sauce. I asked Jacqueline who was sitting across from me what it was but all I got was a mouthful of Spanish back at me. She didn’t stick to my few words as she now usually does. I tried again to ask her what the hell the meat was but I wasn’t too successful.
“Is it a pig”
“Huh?”
“Like….oink oink??”
“Que?”
“Pigs don’t oink in Peru?”
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