The Peruvians do not do anything special on the 25th December, instead it is a rest day for them (like the 26th is for us), as they have usually been to bed later due to the midnight celebrations.
So this Christmas I spent the 25th with my fellow Latin Link missionaries in the house of Paul and Ruth Turner. There were 14 of us altogether - 4 from Ireland, 1 from Scotland, 2 from England, 1 from Australia and a English/Peruvian family (Roland and Jenny with their kids, Sammy, Ben, Hilda and Kati - visiting from Cusco).
It was a lovely day, we had the proper Christmas Dinner with crackers (and hats), melon, turkey, potatoes, many different vegetables, stuffing, christmas pudding and even custard (custard is a luxury here, you do not get it, this was brought from England). We all helped prepare the dinner and it tasted great and the craic around the table was fun.
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| My Dinner |
After the main course we decided to take a break before eating the desert - as we were all very full - so we had present opening time. As there were so many of us, we did a secret santa which was a good idea. However, we all bought something for the kids, of which there were four of them - and this was fun seeing them all get excited and opening their presents, especially Kati and Hilda.
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| Kati and Hilda with their presents |
After present time we then sang some carols with Ruth playing the pianos for us. This was nice as we sang them in English - been singing carols in Spanish at church, but was nice to have them in English here.
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| Rosemary and Paul singing their carols |
It was a lovely day and was a little piece of home away from home.
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