Saturday 28th June was Independence Day in Peru which is also known as Fiestas Patrias (you may remember my other blog on this couple of weeks ago). Because Saturday was a special day and because the Step team were here, we had a special Jovenes which was all about Peru.
The church was decorated in red and white and everyone was instructed to wear red and white as well because this is the colour of the Peruvian flag.
What did we do, well we had a quiz which we had to answer questions about Peru with going to different points of the room where each place in Peru was represented - there was a model MachuPicchu for Cusco, some Nazca lines for Nazca, a model of El Misti for Arequipa etc. There were many confused people during this quiz and because there were only three Peruanas in my time, the rest English, Irish or Cuban we did not do very well with answering the questions. One thing we did learn was that we need to learn more about Peru, especially me and the Cuban who are living here!
All Peruvians have a carnet which is their ID card here. I have one as well as am here for a year and it is necessary to have one to be able to stay a year or more. And on Saturday night the whole step team were given their own 'carnets' made by the church youth. This will be something they can keep to always remember their time in Peru by, was a cool idea.
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| Some of the team with their Carnet's |
After they got their carnet's, the whole team were made to get down on one knee and swear allegiance to Peru.
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| Swearing Allegiance |
Airyn, Alejandra, Sandra, Jenny and Daniel (some of the Peruvians) showed us how to do different dances of Peru - from the North of Peru to the South of Peru via the Jungle. And once they had shown us how to do the dance, we all had to get up and do the dance ourselves - was quite funny but also fun. For once in my life I got up and danced!
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| The dancers and their outfits |
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| Everyone - the Jovenes and the Step Team |
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