la comida.

today was our first day we didnt have to venture off to the training center. i woke up this morning and had desayunar (breakfast) with my little sis. unfortunately, breakfast is not the most important meal of the day here.. i am usually my hungriest when i first wake up. almorzar (lunch) is most important in peru. for breakfast, i usually have bread and guacamole - or bread and an egg - or just bread. this morning i had bread and guacamole. for lunch today, i had pasta and some kind of carrot-based sauce and pollo (chicken). usually, i have rice and some crazy chicken or potato-based sauce.. and something similar for cena (dinner). they are HUGE on carbs here. and we arent supposed to eat any salads or ceviche for the first 3 weeks - which slowly allows time for our stomachs to get used to peru. honestly, i havent had any stomach problems yet - but we learn in our training that about 90% of us will literally poop in our pants at least once during our service. (heheh) and peruvians call doler en el estomago (a stomach ache) “bicicleta” for some reason - - which means bicycle. hmm.. those crazy peruvians.

en la noche (in the evening), my fellow peace corps peeps and i took a combi to chaclasana. they were having a huge fiesta for their procesion. loads of fireworks, food, cervesas, and people! a few of the trainees live over there, so most of us met up with them at the fiesta. it was a blast (quite literally - with their psycho fuego artificial)!