Grupo Cinco

    Elections here are crazy. The whole time I've been in Peru, I've seen commercials, murals, huge, blaring parades and campaigns with flags, posters, pins and match boxes with different candidates' faces. "Josue Noreiga", "Vicky Espinoza", "VALENTIN!" and the election is on Sunday, October 3rd. Even the motos and taxis are painted different colours (red or blue) depending on who they're supporting. And Friday and Saturday nights, it is prohibited to go to a discoteca, because the election is sunday. Not sure how that works, but yeah. Everything shuts down. No colegio saturday, yes! Anyways, tonight there's this huge concert thing in the Plaza cerca de la casa de Jhoselyn. Ah! I keep mixing up my languages lately. All the time, especially when I'm talking to someone from home!

     The concert started at 4pm, and we went from around 6-9, and it's still blastin on. We can hear the music clearly from our house, and there was fireworks and everything. It was part of Valentin and Josue's campaign, and everyone had flags (banderas) and posters and flyers and hats and the likes. The Group of 5 (a musical group) played AWESOME Peruvian music for a few hours. I brought my little camera and will post some of the videos of the music and crazy latino dancing on facebook, because my blog won't let me! It was super fun. Felt like a music festival; good acoustic drum beats and everything. It's weird because here you're apparently allowed to drink in public places. There was a bunch of people walking around selling cervesas (beer) and chocolate bars and other weird UFO (unidentified food objects, that actually taste good phew!) After the Group of 5, the candidates and other representatives gave some long but interesting speeches. People here know how to talk. But they also know how to use their voice to make it interesting to listen to! Josue and Valentin even did some dirty dancing for the crowd; it was hilarious. Then the next musical group was three women who dressed pretty but had no musical vibes going for them, so we left, ate some alright pizza, and walked home.