Since Monday or whatever
Tuesday the... 21st.. what!?
Went to el Cine with Francheska and a bunch of her friends from her iglesia group and saw Louise, Emily, Laetitia and Maricielo and Daevis there as well haha. Then on the way back the taxi driver overheard Bryan asking me if I believed in god, and started on this huge preach. Religious Juan told me “hija, you must believe in god.” It is very hard to defend yourself when your Spanish is lacking and well. It’s often just hard to speak with religious people who avoid the scientificly based questions/points and can ramble on for hours about offtopic things and such. But he was a very nice guy. It was actually kinda cool. When he stopped to let us out, after calmly conversing and stuff, I was the last to get out of the taxi and before I did he asked if we could do some “oraciones” together. I went with the flow and let him take my hand and closed my eyes and tried not to giggle as I repeated some religious verses after him. “Amen.” Something about “today I accept Jesus into my heart as my savior” and he told me he was happy because there are “fiestas en los cielos” or parties in heaven. The only reason I was into it was because this guy wasn’t just trying to convert me, but actually and truely believed he was helping me and trying to make my life better. He honestly just wanted the best for me, which was interesting. I’m quite proud of what we did manage to converse about in my handicapped Spanish though hahah. I kinda love all the little experiences like these in life. They’re my favourite.
Then I was super stomach sick fever tight neck craziness for three days and also saw and tried on my vestido for the first time :O! It’s above knee height and silky and coral (dark orange/pink) and has a silver strap belt thing and is kinda like a corset and then it fans out at my hips or something silly. I kinda look good in it but I’m kinda never gonna wear it again :P Oh man. Little Miaclaire in a fancy dress. What. Has. This. World. Come. To. Hahaha and then Mona helped me take out my crazy hippie braid dreadlock. I can actually say I had a dread. One, single, huge, knotted, beautiful, dreadlock. It’s all good now haha I think I’ll put another one in before Canada-time.
Wednesday
Bought more regalos for chocolatada and had dance ensayos aaand I bought and gave Soledad her beautiful polo xmas present, because she left that night to travel to her home family in Puko or some other city for Christmas J <3
Thursday
Chocolatada aaaaaall day. The whole fam got up early and went to Sra Vicky’s house to help set up balloons and chairs and huge stereo speakers and wrap presents and make hot chocolate. It was awesome. I brought my little camera (and filmed parts of it too) to take pics. It was cute and sad because everyone wanted a picture of themselves and were soooo excited to look at them, because none of them have cameras. Aaw then there was a clown and some paid dancers who came and entertained the kids. Talia- this one guy danced super flyyy hahaha I filmed a bit for you to see haha kinda like Michael Jackson and who knows what else, but it was smooth. Then every single person’s name was called out from a list, and they each came in with their tickets to receive a present (sorted by age appropriateness), a cup of hot chocolate, and a huge slice of paneton. It was kinda sad how many didn’t say thank you... but it felt so amazing to be helping. We gave to over two hundred ninos. Thanks to Nancy and Sra Vicky and Lady and everybody who helped us, we brought Christmas to over 200 kids who would not have had it otherwise. And that... is freaking awesome. I wish I’d bought even more presents!! We wrapped it up and made it home around 10:30pm with plenty of hot chocolate to spare.
Noche Buena (written on xmas eve)
No internet, no puedo hablar con mi familia, quiero llorar, no siento nada de navidad. I washed dishes and helped out and bought expensive presents for fran, jhosey, junior and gabo (mañana voy a comprar for Nancy and mario in Trujillo) and well. They’re just kinda ungrateful ..and I’m not sure if they deserve anything im giving them. While I was buying presents for them, they were trying on fancy dresses and complaining to Nancy. Its so hard always being the better person and sucking it up. Usually, after buying presents for people, i always feel so amazing, and happy and warm and fuzzy! But after buying them gifts.. i don’t feel anything. I don’t feel good for having bought them nice things. Thats not right. Usually i love buying people presents- but this time. It felt more like an obligation, i dunno. It hurts. Xmas isn’t the same here. I don’t feel it. It’s just another day. I wish there was internet so i could skype my family and bawl my eyes out or say hi to everyone at paul and michelle’s or something. But no. We’re eating delicious pancitos and cooking a pig’s head with some purple (yeah. Naturally bright purple purple) kamotes/sweet potatoes. And apparently tomorrow, instead of being able to skype my family how we’ve been planning for... over a month. L i get to go with them to Trujillo. Woopee. Im told that i can skype my family from an INTERNET CAFE AT STARBUCKS. That’s not Christmas. They have no idea how hard this is for me. Is it so much to ask that i can skype them ... not from the calle?? They know ive had this planned forever and just. Now we’re going to Trujillo. Im trying so hard to see this as a positive, once in a lifetime “Christmas in peru” experience that I’ll never have again... but im just not feeling it. I don’t feel the joy of giving. I feel the greed and selfishness of jhoselyn bearing down on me like the wild boar in the oven. She just demands expensive new clothes from her mother as if its her right to receive them. In a country like this.. i just don’t understand how she can be this way L this isn’t Christmas. This isn’t Christmas. She glared at me when i suggested that it’s about more than regalos. Scoffed even, because she was in the middle of making demands of some sort from her poor mother. Unbelievable really. Unbelievable. And i cant even cry because it’ll hurt them to know how sad i am under their roof. And then they’ll feel bad and i don’t want to bring down their Christmas, it’s not their fault i miss my own family and traditions. But it’s also too much to handle right now. I just wanna go to sleep and wake up for new years L I miss you guys!! Feelin’ like a baby though hahaha
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K WELL after bawling my eyes out during fireworks in the background; I had a good time. I took a couple cool pics of Junior and his friend shooting fireworks and then we shared a big dinner of delicious sweet pan, turkey, pig, pink potatoes, purple kamotes, hot chocolate and applesauce. I would have thought the dinner would have been longer, but it didn’t last more than 15minutes and we didn’t talk that much. That’s less than usual for every day almuerzo! Then Junior dived right in to open his present. All the kids loved my gifts hehe and Nancy gave me a shirt and Mario gifted each of us ladies with a beautiful purse/bag thing. Mine is super soft and blue and has 10 pockets and might be leather. I feel way too spoiled and was nOOOOOT expecting that! I’m definitely the most grateful kid in the house right now though. The others act like it’s expected and it’s kinda..yeah. Anyways. Then we all stayed up super late eating more bread til we passed out at 4am.
Xmas
K so even though it didn’t feel anything like Christmas yesterday, apparently it was xmas. I got up and washed dishes, went back to bed, then we had more chancho (pig) for breaky/lunch. And then I skyped my generous and beautiful family and they opened WAY TOO MANY presents for me under our homey Charlie brown xmas tree that i miss so much. It was pretty awesome. <3 Wow. It was only yesterday, but I don’t really remember what else we did. Nothing really. Christmas is over on xmas eve in Peru I guess hahah. Then Jhoselyn and I went out to eat but almost everything was closed...duh. THEN I SKYPED WITH WENDY AND CHEYLSEA OMG made me smile. So happy. J And then our buds Chemo and Fercho came over around 11 and kidnapped us out to a DISCOTECA in el centro around 12:30. It was the most fun night we’ve had in awhile! It was soooo crazy and packed. Christmas is a good day for discos hahah everybody goes out dancing like crazy. It was hard to dance properly sometimes because of all the people and it was soooo hot but so awesome. This time it was just 6 of us dancing together and stuff so it was a smaller group and way more fun. We just went all out no matter what type of music was playing.. cumbia, salsa, reggae, rock, techno, reggaeton, all of it! Then we raced home a bit late at 3:30 and it was today. Feliz Navidad!
Today(Sunday??)
Woke up, washed dishes, cleaned room, ate paneton, showered, did yoga.
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