Faithful blog readers, today you have the privilege (the mouth-watering privilege) of seeing how we eat chicken Peruvian-BBQ style. It was delicious.
Monday and Tuesday of this week were feriados - holidays - so our young adults group planned an outing to a campground in Yura, a rural area about 40 minutes away from Arequipa. We left early on Tuesday morning and came back Tuesday night fully exhausted, but it was fun and a good time of fellowship for the group. Amongst the things we did were the following:
Danny climbed a mountain while Anne took pictures and read her book.
Anne tried really hard to convince Edgardo (Joel and his wife Jaky´s son) to take a smiling picture, but Edgardo was feeling sassy.
A lot of people went swimming in the thermal baths that they have at the campground, but after spending about 30 seconds in the suffocating, enclosed, sulfur-emanating pool room, Danny and I decided that we would pass.
Other than that, we´ve (I´ve) spent a lot of time this week getting ready for life back in the States. We found out earlier this week that Danny´s law school orientation has been pushed up to be Monday, August 16th instead of Thursday the 19th. Since we are moving to Charlottesville two days before that, I´ve been trying to organize as much as possible now.
Amongst the moving tasks, I have:
1.) Finally booked the UHaul to take our stuff to Cville.
2.) Created a month-long meal plan to get us through August.
3.) Wrote shopping lists to correspond to said meal plan.
4.) Finally figured out our health insurance situation.
5.) Re-wrote our monthly budget because of said health insurance (health care reform please kick in NOW).
I will also begin the following shortly:
1.) Investigating removable wall-paper (we´re not allowed to paint, but I don´t think I can stand an all-white place for too much longer).
2.) Exploring the city´s artisan markets to see what kind of decorations we can bring home (Life-sized stuffed alpaca? YES PLEASE).
3.) Hounding Bryn Mawr and American for our immunization records so that UVa can rest assured that we will not contract measles or polio.
More posts to come soon...
Aaaah that chicken looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteBut the sulfur pools do not sound amazing....
I actually cooked over a fire as well in Charlottesville last week, since we had a 48-hour blackout due to a storm and my host family's oven is electric. We made "hobo stew" (possibly not the most politically correct name ever), which is meat, potatoes, vegetables, and tomato sauce cooked on a fire in an aluminum foil packet. Tasty!