this is the concurso primaveral that basically is the festival the colegio hafor the 1st day of spring...also they have a talent show with the different grades performing... i took some videos hopefully i can get them up!! Def interesting

that is the director on my right (your left) and the sub-director on my left (your right) i considered myself the paula abdul of pedregal idol...lol it was funny because they had a singing portionwhere we were supposedto judge toneof voice...the performers lipsynced...yeh so i gave them all 0s lol

These were the best performers and winners it was grade 1A they did a traditional dance it was sooo cute because they were dressed up in costume (sorry traditional clothes)

setting up for the fair in Lima....

Finishing set-up for the fair...this is our stand

this is my socio-communitaria -Martha

yepp this is excuse #1 why I was late on the way there and arrived monday afternoon and not monday morning! We left onthebus at 6pm and drove for about 10 minutes when we justcollapsed to the side. Everyone was sitting in their seatslike whatdid we go up a curb or something. Then people started leaning on theside ofthebus to look out the window and see whathappened. Well, being that I know what happens when you lean a lot of your weight on one side of something, me and this other girl who were on the bus were like everyone to the other side so that it pulls the weight to the other side. Then we had everyone file off the bus because stuffwas sliding off the top shelf andhitting people. Well when were all safely outside, you had peoplelikecrying thinkign they justhad a serious near-death experience lol! And since we were still so close to town, people's family starting showing up and like freaking out hugging eachother. I was of course the person calling people adn being like omg this is craziest/funniest thing i've ever seen. I could never imagine the road just collapsing!! Well after standing around for 2 hours guarding the bus the policebrought a huge truck with the bus agency to empty our suitcases and put them into a new bus we were taking at 8:30. We did get out of Piura at about 8:30 but unfortunately it wsan't in the nice semi-cama buses that we were taking, it was in the awful 90 degree seats that destroy your back. So I barely slept in that for the 14 hour bus ride.
OKay well that explains a bit.. im trying to DL some videos but its taking forevs.

YEp...the bus just crashed through the road it was crazy!!

I feel like I should have more pistures but i drew enough attention to myself being the grings whipping out the camera to take the pics of this.

just a bit about lima... will try to write more later

I left on sunday at about 9ish instead of 6 which is for a reason I will like to tell in more detail and will when I get back to Piura so i can include pictures... I got into Lima at about 1ish on Monday instead of 8 am this is for another reason lol I will explain later then I headed to meet bron to get the material for the products, stopped by the PC office, starbucks (but of course) and then headed to Jockey Club to set up the stand with my artesan's ... Ihave videos and pictures I will upload as well.... when I get back to Piura lol... we set up the stand, finishing at about 9ish and then I went to eat with BRon at this awesome restaurant called San Antonios and got a Prosciutto sandwich with mozzarello tomatoes and basil yummm
Tuesday we arrived late.. surprise to the feria and my job started right away.. as a translator... writting down a bunch of things and helping exporters place orders and answer their questions... I left around 12 to head to Chacrasana.. had lunch with Consuelo and Julia then I headed back to the feria till about 6:30ish when it closed. Then I shared ice creams with Pablo and Elvira who were professors during my training. Then got some more starbucks lol (1 a day!!) and used the internet to email all you people who ive been ignoring for a week and a half bc i haven't been on in forever...
Wednesday we arrived at the fair on time and again i was a translator and helping my artesan's receive orders... then I headed to lunch with Bron at about 2ish we got starbucks lol then I headed back to the fair till about 7:30ish because we had to pack up our stand... then we headed to dinner with some other volunteers we met (they volunteer for another organization) one girl was from argentina and then a guy from seattle... we ate falafels (my first time... soo delicious!) then I got back to the hotel and passed out! This morning went to pick up my tickets at the bus terminal and now just sending you an update!
Okay as for the new design... we did not do it... reasons I will also explain later but needless to say i am disappointed.. ahh okay well there is my sched...which I needed to write because jan the man sent an email with no words just in the subject line: no blog updates!! what gives??
Lol love you mom.. be looking for the package I sent this week...hopefully it gets up too you soon. Prob not in time for grants bday but let him know its there!
Love you all very much!!
Elizabeth

fotos...

helping the alcalde Enrique Chero with the Bandera de Pedregal Grande... this was a bit hysterical because they knotted it so it could go up all the way then they took it down and had to retie it and then it ended up upside down lol... he was a bit frustrated and i didn't help by laughing during this whole ceremony...

the beautiful flag of my adopted home ..Peru.. next to the bandera of Pedregal ...upside down =)

putting up the flag i think this is after determining that it was knotted so we couldn't get it through the loop holes.

random remarks were made to start the ceremony... dont worry i wasn't laughing during this part

Putting up the flag

yes i know i was a pro at this from the years at pop's shore house!

working my magic!

This was a procession that started the march to the slaughter of the vaca for Jesus de Cautivo a ceremony they do...the walk is 8 days... they passed by my house and had to take some photos!! I also filmed it so i should hope I will take the time and put it up right after i finish with this post!

Yes that is a neon florescent cross giong down the street

Tad bit o´ updates

Okay well Saturday I did the usual session with the kids for english and then I headed into to see some of the Peru 11 crew who came in from their sites.. we went out on Saturday then I came back to site on Sunday. I had a meeting at 3 with the artesan´s only a few days left till I leave for Lima ...I´m actually pretty nervous right now... Because allow I think these bags are goign to be cute... they all need to be put together, there, in Lima. So it will be a lot of pushing to finish before the exhibition in the gallery starts. Sooo therefore keep your fingers crossed. I have slowly determined that less people are reading this therefore I´m not going to spend a lot of time writing detailes... so ill just give you updates whenever I can! Monday was fine had a meeting with the Regidore about the show campaign which officially started we had to print the tickets then numbera ll 500 by hand 2x and then stamp each one individually with the municipality´s stamp then had to sign each one... what a process for raffle tickets lol. We decided since we couldn´t get a cell phone donation we were going to do vivertes which is like a basket of food items to give away with a balon (ball) de futbol and a sorpresa... prob a game of monopolia! Then I went for a run later that day... On Tuesday I went into Piura to use the free internet there bc i had to do some research and now its wednesday. I had my tutpring session in the morning, before that I was with my artesan filling out forms for the PC fair in Lima and trying to get more finite details about this trip were making in 4 days. Okay well thats about it.. chau
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went out to piura last weekend ..these are my lovely baja biddies sarah and karrie