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Published: April 12th 2006
Friends for two hours
The mad Belgiums and the two German dental students who pulled a lot of teeth in PeruSo yesterday, the 11th I decided to study after my Spanish lessons and not go into town with the teachers as it takes a lot of time and you can´t get to study anything when you´re finished with all the things they organise. Unfortenately they had also organised a cocktail making course in the Spanish cafe at 6 pm. So I studied from 1 till 4 on the highest roof terrace on the plaza de armas.
Two German guys and two Belgiums from Ghent got talking to each other and exchanged stories about Peru, so I called my study a day and joined in to have a few bears with them. The two Belgiums had like 5 whiskeys each and were pretty drunk, they were going to take the nightbus to Cusco and they could only survive drunk in the bus they told me. So after a few bears it was time for the cocktail making party. Renzo my Spanish teacher who also functions as a bartender, showed us how to make a Pisco sour. Here´s the recipe: first 5 cubes of ice, then 2 to 3 cocktail cups of pisco, then 2 cups of sugar water and 1 fresh
Cocktail classes
Denise from Surinam, Kim from Korea and Triz from Ireland. lime squeezed, finally top of the head of an egg and pour in the eggwhite, then start shaking till your hands are frozen, enjoy!
Next we had to make a machu picchu, looks great, like the reggae flag, tastes horrible. Meanwhile the rest of the students dropped in, Denise a Dutch girl from Surinam and Kim from Korea all got to taste their own cocktails and Kim who I met before was joined by her Irish friend Triz. They were allready pretty drunk and wanted to get some more booze. So when the cocktail making class was over we decided to hit for Philly´s coffeeshop around the corner.
For 10 soles we got a jug off Pisco sour and were joined by a few Peruvians, who got drunk for free. The Irish girl went out for half an hour and came back stoned... Mmm, not too clever I think.
So what else has happened? Last sunday we had the elections here and that ment it was forbidden to serve alcohol during the weekend, starting from friday 4 o´clock. That was a bit of a pity as on friday we wanted to have a few drinks. Luckely we found
Renzo and me
My Spanish teacher and me in front of El Misty a Mexican restaurant that was willing to serve us tequila disguised in coffeecups. Every once in a while a police officer would look into the restaurant to ensure nobody was breaking the law, which was good fun!
Next saturday I went to visit the Cathedral and the mummy museum on Santa Catalina. They have frozen Inca mummy´s here, found on the top of the vulcanos. Juanita was discovered in 1995, by Dr. Johan Reinhard when the vulcano Sabancaya erupted. The vulcano is 6,380 meteres high and when it erupted the other frozen vulcano´s melted and gave away the over 500 years ago offered Inca children. All were amazingly preserved through their frozen state. Juanity who is currently on display is still kept at minus 20 degrees and looks terrifying alive.
Saturday night I was picked up by Renzo and the two dutch girls, to go to his Mum´s birthday. All the the sisters of Renzo and their esposos were there and had you guessed it right a lot of Pisco. Next we went on to a party at Jenny´s house, who is a teacher as well in the Spanish school and had a good laugh doing the merengue and some salsa, which I am crap in of course.
Sunday election day, all the Peruvians are obliged to vote if not they are fined a 165 soles which is impossible for most of them to pay. So all of them vote. Big runners up were Ollanta, Garcia and Lourdes. Since no one got the needed 50% majority of the votes, there´s going to be a second round within the next 30 days. More then likely Ollanta is going to win, which is not very good for the country as he´s an old military person, who is very right wingish person, who wants al the foreigners out of the country, especially all the Chilean people.
Also as it is the week before easter there´s loads of processions, tossing Christ and Maria everywhere from church to church. We had agreat view from the top of the roof on Plaza del Armas. It took around 50 people to carry them. We spent the rest of the day besides a pool in a big sporting complex, studying.
On monday the teachers took us to a viewing point out of town, where we had great views on El Misty, Sabancaya and all the other vulcanos in the area. The first week they weren´t visible, but every day the view is improving. It is quite impressive to see all these big vulcanos when you´re in the town as they tower up to over 6000 meters. There´s alot of vulcanic activity in the area. The last time there was a devastating earthquake was in 2001 and all of the vulcano´s are still active. El misty is only 17 km away from town and people will have no time to evacuate when it will erupt.
Time for a beer now I guess!
Hasta Luego!
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Annet
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Spaanse les?
Ha die Mischa, Het lijkt me meer een drankcursus dan een Spaanse les. Volgende keer maar eens een update in het Spaans! Maar wel gezellig! Leuk dat je zo veel verschillende mensen ontmoet. Wij zijn bezig voor de herfstvakantie: Andalusie wordt het! Altijd een paar vakanties in het vooruitzicht hebben toch? Hoe is het met je woning? Al verhuurd? Hier is het weer trouwens nog steeds pet! Maar ja nu wel ff 5 dagen vrij, dus dat is wel weer lekker! Het beste weer en hasta luego! Annet en Karel en Tim!