Chinchero homestay and learning to weave
Trip Start
Apr 10, 2010
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Trip End
Sep 04, 2010
Chinchero, Peru
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Saturday 8th: We woke up early and had breakfast. We got a mug of milk with oats and sugar which was so good! And we got a tomato and cheese sandwich and papaya juice and eggs too! We set off with Rennbert, Daysi, Fiorella, and Ania to walk to this village. It´s so much harder to walk here because of the altitude and I have a massive cold too which doesn´t make it any easier! I told the kids to start calling Beth Betty, so no she gets called Betty or Baby and even Roxanna was calling her Betty. We got to the place where we were weaving and Roxanna started teaching Heather and Domenica and Leonor taught Beth and Ania taught me- It looks impossible to do but then when you start going it´s easier than you think! We were weaving for so long and hardly got anywhere, it takes ages, then we started to cook to lunch. We went with Leonor to build the oven; she made a natural oven out of dry mud and then lit a fire inside with dry grass and twigs and that. Eventually they put the potatoes in it and then collapsed the oven on it and covered it in mud to cook.We lay out on the grass for ages with Fiorella, Daysi and Ania and one of the babys. Then dinner was ready, we had trout and potato again which was so nice! All of the Peruvians were eating the potatoes as if they were crisps, the ate so many! Then Roxanna´s mum, the old scary woman who only speaks Quechuan, gave us some Chicha, which is a corn beer and is fermented by someone chewing the corn and spitting it out. It was pretty nasty really, and the old woman basically drank the whole vat of it. We continued with the weavind and Roxanna was joking that she would offer me a place at her weaving centre! Leonor was a bit in love with my watch so she wore it for the rest of the day! The old woman came over to Domenica with a water bottle and offered her a drink and Domenica drank it like water and got a bit of a shock when it was the spirit that goes into Chicha. We all had some, it was really minging! We think the old woman might´ve been a bit drunk! After we´d weaved for a while )we get to keep what we weave) we played football with the kids and us girls were a bit pathetic! Had grass fights with the boys and I was winning against Rivaldo until Rennbert started throwing poo, then I surrendered!We eventually got a bus back to Cusco and found a note from Nicola saying her and the boys would meet us at 7.30 to go to Indigos the Thai place. So we waited for her but eventually just left and went there, we were hungry. They met us there later though. Actually had some really nice food but it did take ages to come! Nicola and the boys are leaving tomorrow so we said our goodbyes and went back for a massive sleep.
Comments
Nobby Solano! do they (or you) know who he is?
throwing poo in a grass fight?! sounds like something lucy might do. good job she's prepared you for working with young children heheheh xx
Massive sleeps &massive eats - sounds good, hope you're getting the recipes. Seeing your ma & pa this w/e down here.He's bringing his bike, he's going to be so fit! almost as fit asyou are- what will you be like when you come down to normal altitudes?
Go well Lotsof love Gie & Gpa
Haha was just about to say that I'd throw poo if it meant you'd surrender hahahahaha xx