Business Development Trainees on our way to visit a fish farm in Santa Eulalia (about an hour or so from the training center). We talked about business and tourism strategies with the owners and some people caught their own fish for dinner that night.
Siobhan, me, Kim and Jessica before learning our site assignments.
We had to fish the paper boats out of the pool and unroll a piece of paper under our names that had the name of our department on it.
The moment I found out I was going to Piura!
The map that shows where all of Peru 13 will be. I´m going to have lots of places to visit!
A group of us out celebrating our assignments: Keenan, Kim, Jessica, Keith, me, Christie, Susan, Siobhan.
Katie and Siobhan demonstrate just another challenge of being a tall person in Peru.
We sang some karaoke at dinner really loud and terribly. After a particularly intense song (most likely ¨Hey Jude¨) Kim announced on the microphone, ¨That was really good yall just don´t know because it was in English.¨ No one in the restaurant turned around in response to her comment and this remains my favorite quote of training so far. Afterwards, we went to Franny´s house before heading back out to Chosica.
Katie, me, Franny, Kim, Jessica, Siobhan, Alayna.
A few of us outside of the Artesan Fair we went to in Barranco in Lima.
After the fair, we decided to walk around a little bit in the area and get some lunch. We went to a Pollo a la Braza restaurant, but before that, we stopped at the grocery store to buy the ingredients for mamosas. We then proceeded to make our own mamosas at the restaurant with our own champagne and orange juice. We were, however, charged an opening fee for the bottles of champagne.
Cesar (standing in the middle) turned 14 and the family came over to celebrate. We´re singing happy birthday in this picture. This is after the older boys taught their two year old cousin Andres how to say a reallllly bad word in Spanish and he was yelling it at the top of his lungs. He was definitely their entertainment for tonight. Andres also has a dance to ¨Beat it¨and whenever anyone starts to sing it he gets up on his tip toes in his best Michael Jackson impression.
My mom and during one night of the holiday. We were outside on the roof making some kind of soup that takes 3 hours to cook over an open fire.
Me with Abuelo Charlie, Tia Elena, and Primo Marcio.
Some of us at Russ and Jean´s house celebrating Katie Alta´s birthday (she´s in the middle making a ridiculous face). We have a short Katie trainee who we call Katie Baja (short in Spanish) and we have a tall Katie, hence, Katie Alta.
Jessica looked beautiful and clean on Friday night.
Frank, me, and the birthday girl before karaoke and dancing began.
Peruvians can dance better. But we did try (unsuccessfully).
Then we went farming the next day and made some compost at La Agraria. We received certificates so now I am a certified agricultural specialist.
That´s all for now, I hope you enjoyed the pictures! I´m off to Piura this afternoon for site visit and will post more when I get back. Chau!
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