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THANKSGIVING FEAST

With Tammie´s parents and grandparents in town we had the man/woman power for a great Thanksgiving feast. They rented the apartment across the patio from ours and so we had two kitchens. They brought some hard-to-come-by items from the states (like stuffing, canned pumpkin, shortening and other things.) And thanks to Tammie´s mom we had a very organized system of providing Thanksgiving dinner for the seven of us plus our 15 or so friends whom we invited.

We had ordered a turkey from the butchers, they said it would be ready on Thursday morning, but when Tammie and Alana went to pick it up they said that there are no turkeys in Cusco right now. (They are really popular around Christmas time but the rest of the year, impossible to come by.) So we decided to go over to a nearby restaurant (where I know the head manager and helped him translate his menu to English) and we got three rotisserrie chickens.

Other than that, we had all the makings for a classic Thanksgiving dinner, plus a few surprises. I helped make the pie crusts for the pies and they turned out really well thankfully (I´m kind of hit and miss with my pie crusts.) And some of our Peruvian friends brought cuy to give the dinner an Andean flair.




The time came for dinner and we ate and ate. Now, I don´t eat very big meals here so this was quite a change and I felt it the next day. We sent plenty of food home with our friends and all in all it was a great success. The Peruvians seemed to really enjoy it as well.





As for the rest of my time recently, I haven´t done much other than teaching English, learning Spanish and going through the daily routines here.