LL Peru Talent Night

On the Wednesday night of the conference we had a talent night and each area of Peru had to do something.

First of all we had the team from Cusco who sang a song in Quechan (the language spoken by the Quechans, the indigenous people of Peru). The amazing thing about this part of the night was that Jenny (new strider) who could hardly speak Spanish was singing in yet another language... or maybe she was miming!

In Lima, there is a park in the area of Miraflores where all the cats in the city seem to hang out - it amazed me just how many there were  - everywhere you looked they were there even in the flowerbeds. And the team from Lima (which is the biggest team) took the idea for their sketch from these cats. 

They all dressed up as cats and came in on tiptoes and purred that they had decided to leave Latin Link and start a new organisation called Lima Link which reached out to all the cats living in Lima. It was such a hilarious sketch and had us in stitches. 

Kerstin Abbas as a Cat

Margaret Saunderson, Hannah Wilkinson and Marion Burke.

NB: Marion Burke actually works in Moyabama not Lima, but she joined this sketch because she always wanted to be a cat!!! Ha Ha

The team from Huaraz decided they did not have any talent but instead tested our talents by hosting a quiz. Unfortunately my team went out in the first round so we did not even get to win any of the prizes which consisted of sweets, crisps etc - very nice, but thankfully the teams who won shared them with us.

Finally, it was the turn of the team from Arequipa (saving the best for last). Our sketch was dreamed up by Ruth Green and Rosemary Gibson and was funny. The tag line of the sketch was "Arequipa, the place which has all the perfect missionaries" because we were all the same height (this involved us all trying to be the same height as the tallest person in the group, and saw Ruth Green getting on a chair... funny), we all wear glasses (at this point I had to borrow some... though I do wear glasses for reading), we all get on so well (two of our team started fighting at this point), we all helped out when asked (at this point Ruth Turner asked us to help wash dishes and we all came up with an excuse), we all dressed modestly!, were all young (though, I am actually the youngest by 12 years), and we all spoke perfect Spanish with perfect accents (cue Rosemary talking in her broad Belfast accent and Ruth G in her strong Australian one).  As you can probably tell the sketch was full of irony.

Roland Brown measuring us all to make sure we are the same height!

The Oldies!!!!

The Belfastian and Australian speaking perfect Spanish with perfect accents!

I enjoyed the night and came away thinking that the whole bunch of the LL Peru team are nutters, but that is good because it means I will fit in well!! Looking forward to getting to know the Arequipa team better