An average day of a tall dutchman in Peru

Hi there!

Right now I'm eating chifles and sitting behind the computer screen at home. Chifles are like chrisps (chips), but made of banana. They taste better, and the greasy feeling that they leave you with feels better than with chrisps. Great stuff!
The house, for those who don t know that yet, is inhabited by a family (dad, mom, two brothers, a sister and a cat) a maid, and 5 fellow students.
We get up at around 6.30 to eat breakfast. Breakfast means two little breads with mortadella, a glass of milk, and the best part of every morning, a glass of fresh juice. The television is allways on. When we ate breakfast, we do a 15 minute walk to the uni. Buildings on the campus are white, and the nature area is gorgeous. Squirells, deer and a lot of peacocks (pauwen) which you often find doing their macho-thing with you when you try to pass by. The others take classes, but go there for with my experiment. For that, I am putting leafs I collected in a huge grinder for a few seconds, then I clean the grinder for 20 minutes so that the data dont get mixed up, and after that I repeat the process afterwards. You can probably imagine what a joy I recieve each time I actually get to grind thew leafs.

At the end of the morning, I like it very much to walk around on the market. People allways warn me for the peligro if I go there, so I watch out, but I just love the colours and the atmosphere there. You know that most of the things you see are from the neigbourhood, especially the fish. People try to sell me a lot, but I hold of most of the time, but I enjoy their nice way of being.

Around 12.30, I get back to the casa, to take a (cold) shower, and then we gather for the almuerza, lunch. That is when all the students get together. We have discussion about how rich peru would be if cocaine was legalized here, or about if abortion and euthanasia should be legalised here too. Or they ask me to teach them english. The boys here are pretty philosophical, so we also discuss topics like god, and political systems. We eat separately from the family. Lunch consists of rice, chicken or fish, and from time to time a slice of tomato.

In the afternoon, I go back from 3 to 7 more or less, depending on the work I have to do. After that it is time for la cena, similar to the almuerza but smaller. Still with the television on. At night, my new friends and I find some time for the occasional chela (beer). Im allready a big fan of the cusqueña negra. But not every bar has that.

That is pretty much my daily life as it is now, and as it has been the first moon of my stay here in Piura. I do about one or two excursions of more than an hour away per week, which gives me the distraction I tend to long for. The day to day thing is about to change, however, because the holidays are about to start, making our house a lot calmer, because the students leave. I am thinking about moving to a more active area, even closer to uni, where I can be more independent, and explore the market in a more active way. But I heavent found a room with kitchen yet.

¡That s it again for now, folks! Enjoy Sinterklaas for those who celebrate, and dont freeze to death, I want to see you again : )