Curiosidades

A collection of little curiosities that remind me on a day-to-day basis that I am living in Peru...

Inca Kola - you can't get much more Peruvian than a multinational corporation (Coca-Cola) using indigenous cultural heritage to market soft drinks. I'm not much of a soda drinker, but I'm told that this sugary yellow beverage tastes exactly like bubble gum.

Street dogs wearing sweaters - fondly referred to by PCVs as "slumdog millionaires."

An excellent find from this morning's visit to the National Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology: a Peruvian version of "The Last Supper" painting, in which Jesus is eating cuy for dinner.

Soccer "fields" that bear no resemblance to actual fields, largely due to the utter lack of grass.

And lastly, although there's no picture to accompany this one, today during our run my friend Heidi and I were doing some laps around a nearby park, and at a certain corner two adorable little girls ran after us giggling madly for about 30 feet, then got tired and waited for us to come around again. We tried to encourage them and told them how rápidas they were, but our chatting only brought on more fits of giggles, so we just enjoyed their amusement and went about our run.