For my anthropology class, we were assigned to do a group project about something that a different culture does (some sort of ritual, ceremony, custom etc.). Keep in mind I said a group project, and I am the only foreigner in my class... you ask how I found a group since no body wants to work with foreigners? By default, one group only had two people in it so I got put in their group. So our project was about "Virgen de la Merced", the patron of Churín. Churín is a town about 5 hours out of Lima by bus, and they celebrate la Virgen de la Merced Sept. 22 through the 27 with some parties and food and a running of bulls through the streets(which unfortunately we missed because we had to come back Sunday).
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