For the entire month of June in Cusco, there is a festival almost every day starting with Corpus Christy, a parade of saints around the town square which in Incan times was a parade of mummies, and ending with Inti Rhymi where I'm pretty sure we give thanks to the sun god...I'll let you know in my next post as the festival is tomorrow.
Almost every day for the past two weeks I have spent at least a few days watching a parade, dance, or going even going to a concert at night. My favorite of all of this was this past Saturday when thousands of people crowded into the town square to watch a great concert of Cumbia and other types of music, followed by a really good fireworks display. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole night, and was truly amazed by not only the fireworks, but also the safety standards used here as many of the commercial grade fireworks were shot off no more than 30 feet from the huge plaza crowd!
In addition to all of this, I have made it out to the local clubs a few times. These too are more endless parties ranging from salsa to standard American hits and techno music. One day last weekend I went out to dinner with some of the other American volunteers I'm working with. Afterward, we all headed to our favorite club, Inka Team. We all had a great time, staying out until about 2:30 in the morning. I was pretty happy with the experience as a whole until the next day when I talked with my host family. It turns out my host mom and host sisters were all out at a wedding on the same night. When that ended at 2:30, they hadn't quite had enough, so they decided to go to Inka Team, the same club I had just left, dancing and partying until 5:30 in the morning. At this point I was slightly embarrassed. I always thought I could hold my own at a party, but being out done by your 49 year old host mom is just humiliating! They really bring partying to a whole new level down here...looks like I'm going to need to step up my game.
Until next time, keep livin' the dream!
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Hold your own party, Rob?! Where do you think ur from?!!? Bars close at 2am in MI!! The same thing happened to Andres, his house mom went out tango'ing until 6am one night and he was like...what?!?!
ReplyDeleteman I need to party with your "mom". who would have thought the day would come when THE ROB CERATO was shown up by a mom. Haha hope all is well, let's keep these updates comin!
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