Despedidas

I just finished a delicious goodbye lunch - cuy, of course - with my host family and friends in Cajabamba. This lunch, complete with a scrumptious cake from my sitemates, was the last in what has been a seemingly endless series of goodbyes. Now all that's left is to pack some final items (including a 3-kilo jar of honey, yikes), try not to cry, and get on the bus to Cajamarca tomorrow morning. I am both sad and happy, as this is both an ending and a new beginning, but mostly I just can't believe that two years has already gone by, that I've finished my full Peace Corps service, and that I won't be coming back to Cajabamba for a very long time. 

Goodbye lunch with Sercofe ladies

With Isidora and Filomena, two profesora friends

Made a point of eating shambar this week - my favorite traditional Cajamarcan dish: a thick soup made of semi-peeled wheat, multiple types of beans, pork, peas, and other veggies

Final lunch in Cajabamba: cuy and cake!

Yum!