Our Latest Top Three Things:
1. 300-pound doctor insists on borrowing Brian´s cheap-ass bike without functioning front brakes. He continually accelerates going down a big hill, all attempts at stopping in vain. Crashes, and has to be taken to Piura (5 hours by truck) to get stiches. (Side note: he is one of our favourite people here. Smiled the whole way down to Piura because he got free time off of work.)
2. One of the teachers asked us for final grades for our very informal non-consistent computer class with the elementary kids. So we made up a simple test. All of them failed. Hey - it´s not the teaching, they just don´t get much practice!! I swear!! So, we expressed our concerns to the teacher, not wanting any kids to get in trouble at home for flunking computers. We managed to change every kid´s grade to an A for good participation. How´s that for standardized assment, Colorado Department of Education!!!! In your face!
3. When someone dies in town, it´s a big deal. They officially mourn as a community for 9 days. It just so happend that at the time when 4 other volunteers came to visit us for training, a dearly loved woman from our community died (Brian and I had never met her). Well, it felt wierd anyway, running around town in a pack of oblivious gringoes while people were mourning. Even worse when, riding in a truck brimming full with us Americans, we came speeding into town almost running over the burial procession as it was headed to the cemetary. ¡Que vergüenza! How embarrassing! For some reason, our driver (Peruvian) made the procession back up so we could pass by!!! AND HONKED! Ahhhhhhh!! Being in the cab, I just burried my head in my arms. In the back of the truck, the other gringoes couldn´t do much of anything, save dissapear. Brian took is hat off. Others just shrunk in embarrassment. We´re lucky they love us here!
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