Feria en Huancayo

This photo is from the open air market yesterday in Huancayo. Working at the Springfield Farmers Market next year, I was excited to check out the fruits and vegetables. The market went on for what seemed like miles. People were selling everything from sebiche to men´s thongs. While I didn't purchase a banana hammock I did get some fresh squeezed orange juice, a dollar fifty Michael Jackson cd and another with my favorite Peruvian song EVER ¨Ananau¨. It was reaaaal nice.

So, maybe I´ll float the idea of selling mens underwear at the market next year?

El Rey de ¨Pop¨: 29 de agosto de 1958 – 25 de junio de 2009

Peru is great, but I need my darn rap music.

I like the music, but in moderation. The yelping and flute eventually all blends and sounds the exact same to me. Many people would say the same about hiphop though, so for each his/her own. I actually bought a Michael Jackson cd today for a dollar fifty, sad he´s dead at 50.

I´ve been youtubing for an hour now. I love all the videos, getting a music fix by listening to hiphop from Canada. Great stuff. This guy named Shad is amazing. Listen to him here.

The end of the weekend is near. The weddings yesterday were fun, the first was a little dusty and I didn´t have a seat, the second I only remember looking at my watch and thinking it´s way to early for the numbers to be blurring the way they were. We drank copious amounts of Peruvian beer and celebrated like the majority of marriages don´t end in divorce. I got some chaufa and was sleeping by 10 p.m. Yep, I party hard here in Sapallanga.

Now I´m hanging out in Huancayo, Becky and I visited an open air market earlier today and while she attends a Church service I´m doing some blogging and uploading videos. Afterword, I believe we will getting some pollo a la brasa, delicious peruvian slow roasted chicken with french fries on the side. All for just over a dollar. Love it.

How about a couple more salsa making videos?

Part 2

Part 3


Nos vemos. Mas luego.

Pica pica

Today I was offered the opportunity to make salsa the way the Inca´s did hundreds of years ago. I`ve uploaded part one of the three part series where I hang out on the roof of a local restaurant next to a chicken coup grinding up some peppers. I`m in Huancayo now and am hanging out waiting to go out to dinner with a few of the interns from Pasco who I haven´t met yet.

Learn to make salsa Inca style here: PICA PICA

I´m certainly no Anthony Bourdain, but I`ll keep practicing.

Still to come, bizzare foods: I long to find guniea pig down here, I hear it is very popular and I´ll be trying to get my first few bites on video in the coming weeks.

3 day weekend, we have Monday off for the national recognition off for the day of the worker. My props to them. Teaching is exhausting.

One dollar haircut...

But maybe, just maybe, worth a lot more. Although I haven't really looked in a mirror, I'm almost positive it's better than the majority of the cuts I get in the states for $15 or more.

After getting over some type of bug that had me making frequent bathroom trips and wishing kids were a little less voicetrous, I'm back. Back to enjoying Peru and really getting a kick out of working with these kids. Today we had the first grade class at the beginning of the day and 3 teachers working with 12 kids isn't even enough. Every 5 seconds a kid from one direction or the other is screaming AYUDAME! Which is help me. I understand now why Claire can come home from work tired and ready for a glass of wine.

I wish I could find a single keyboard in Peru that worked like the last but I guess I'm not so lucky. Imagine quotation marks around AYUDAME! Beyond that I've gotten to know the family that we eat with pretty well. The husband and wife have a 5 year old daugher who is absolutely adorable but has become acccostomed to receiving either stickers or a treat everytime I come by. Thanks mom for all the gifts, she's going to be one of the main recipients. Anyways, they have invited Claire and I to the wedding of a brother in late July, I'm hoping we can see Macchu Picchu and get back here to Sapallanga to take part in a Peruvian boda.

On the theme of Peruvian weddings: Becky and I have been invited to TWO this Saturday. And we are supposed to go see some ruins with our inn keeper Roman, the same great guy who took us to see a market and museum about the War of The Pacific last Saturday. I really wish I spoke better Spanish so I could learn more about him. Tonight in passing he mentioned that he fought Shining Path when he was younger. Now he designs, builds, and paints exterior fixtures around Sapallanga. I took some pictures of the things he's done. Pretty impressive.

Anyways, I managed to get placed at the computer closest to the bathroom at this internet cafe and I think they must have ran out of urinal cakes because it smells something fierce. Miss the states, but I'm having a great time here too.

Chicken noodle soup, Chicken noodle soup, Chicken noodle soup...with some Frank´s Redhot on the side

So I´ve uploaded a video of breakfast yesterday morning. While I did sleep for 14 hours the night before, I probably hadn´t showered for 140 hours.

You can find my video here.

Of course with a little tricky youtube labeling I will have people watching my video instead of the Queens anthem ¨Chicken Noodle Soup¨ If you have any interest in tuning in, the official ¨Chicken Noodle¨ video can be found here




hooolahooophooolahoooophooooolahoooop. NOW LET IT RAIN!

Get crazy......


Get stupid.....

Now shake it, now shake it....

Tone wop for me....tone wop for me...

CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP WITH MY HAMMER ON MY SIDE...

(I have no idea what that means...)

Another Blog...

Man and Brian are a father-son team interning in Peru as well. About 3/4 the way down the front page of Man´s blog you can find pictures and information about their visit to the school Becky and I are deployed in.

The link is here.

Notice his perfect punctuation and grammar. He´s a Harvard Grad.