Fish on the Wall

So we go to La Salle in the morning, being told that we're going to a fish farm. Intrigued, the four of us (environmental education group) jump in the back of a motorcycle-with-a-truckbed vehicle, and proceed to make our way up to the farm. On the way, we buy clementines, lemons, tomatoes, bread, veggie oil, and potatoes. We get to the fish farm after about a 30 min ride up a super rocky road, and see tons of trout.

Trucha!

We fished out 5 trout (5 soles apiece, how sweet is that?), and proceeded to clean, gut, and prepare them. We made 2 fires, and boiled potatoes along with frying the trout. Now, after eating the finished product, I have to say that it was definitely the best fish I've ever had (since it was alive maybe about an hour before we cooked it). Delicious does not even begin to describe the freshness that was consumed. Peru is just full of good eats!

You want this.

#wanttogoback #reallywanttofishnow #yum

Café con Queso

So my Spanish teacher (Reyner) took me to an Italian Panaderia instead of having a lesson. We had really awesome pizza, and a little something known as café con queso (Peruvian origins of several hundred years). So the coffee at the panaderia was spot on (served in individual French presses) and quite possibly the best I've had yet in Peru. However, it wasn't complete. We got thin slices of Queso Andino (Andean Cheese), and dropped it into the coffee, and kept on drinking. Surprisingly, the flavor doesn't change at all, and so you finish the coffee. When you're done, you eat the cheese that remains at the bottom! The queso gets a different texture (more smooth I guess), and it takes on a coffee flavor, and it's pretty interesting. Personally, I kinda like it, but you should try it for yourself.

Upon adding the queso

After drinking the coffee, this is what's left

Café con Queso


-Super-hot coffee
-thin-ish slices of cheese cut into sizable chunks (Cheddar apparently works well).


-Add cheese to coffee while super hot
-Continue to drink coffee
-Eat cheese when done



#onlyforthebrave #TwoOfmyfavoritethings #tryit

I guess we're doing something right?

So our wonderful Site Coordinator, Kate, came by 711 today to talk to the teachers about a field trip we're taking the kids on next week (we're taking them to the La Salle greenhouses!), and to observe us teaching.  She talked to the 6C teacher for a while, and told us that he said that the Duke volunteers coming to teach has been a really positive experience.  So much so, that he wants to try and work out something where Pro-World volunteers can come teach at 711 year-round!

That's really great to hear, and it's fantastic that we've made such a positive impression.  Made my day.

#unexpected #icanteach! #howawesomeisthat

Election Day!

Sooo, word on the street (literally) is that Ollanta won the Presidential Elections (confirmed by BBC).

I guess either Keiko Fujimori's too young or her daddy left too much of a bad mark on Peru.

Most people I've ever seen in Urubamba (because they have to come to their original town to vote).  People watching at it's greatest - such a grand variety of people here.  Guards everywhere (one with an AK-47?) and just a ton of people.  Street vendors are having a field day I guess.


#okiguess #wasntexpectingthat #letshopehedoesntenduplikeChavez