Last night I had tiger’s milk!
It did not, however, come from an actual tiger, a delightful experience though I’m sure that would have been… Instead, it’s a milk-based fish/onion/ceviche dish, with sides of corn, honey-glazed sweet potato, and some kind of nut-item feature. To drink, I had what they call chicha, a purple-corn based, earthy, spiced sort of drink for which I am planning to procure the recipe:
If you’re wondering about the ministry we’ve been doing here, and the personal growth/challenges I’ve been experiencing, stay tuned. That will be in blogs to come. I’ve only posted serious blogs so far, so today I am aiming for a more lighthearted approach.
Something that was not lighthearted was the pepper floating at the top of my Leche de Tigre, which I boldly and unsuspectingly ate in one bite, and which most assuredly confirmed the proper functioning of my spicy-food-pain-receptors…
On a serious note in my lighthearted blog post, the food here has been delicious! Lunch is provided every day for the volunteers at the ministry in which we are serving, and our cook, Rosa, has made some of the best home-cooked meals I’ve had in a long time, and not just because I rarely made home-cooked meals for myself back home.
If you go to the bathroom, and there is toilet paper provided inside the stall, that’s a win. If you got in there before realizing the toilet paper is on the wall outside the stall, hopefully it’s not too late… and in either case, you aren’t supposed to flush the toilet paper lest you clog the toilet. So that would be a fun challenge for all you readers: for one week, see if you can remember not to put your TP in the toilet. I bet you’ll forget at least once. We all have. Awkward.
If you’ve never had a churro, your life is incomplete.
In Peru, the currency is a Sol. For each 1.00 USD, you get approximately 3.4 Soles, and prices are moderately comparable/usually slightly less than in the US, depending on what you get.
You can’t drink water from the tap here. It’s bottled, purified, or boiled. You could do that for a week too if you’re struggling with feeling thankful. 🙂 You won’t take that clean water from your faucet for granted anymore.
They can only make buildings so tall here because of earthquakes, so there are not many sky-scrapers.
Also, there are lines on the roads, but they are mostly just suggestions. 🙂
Oh, and the weather has been in the high 70s to low 80s, haha! Best January weather ever.
I’m sure there are other interesting notes I could be mentioning that aren’t coming to mind… What else do you want to know?
