Christmas means Chocolate!!

Every country has traditions at Christmas, and the tradition in Peru is Chocoltada's where you have hot chocolate and Panettone. 

On Thursday 13th December I experienced my first one at Didache, the school I teach English in.  The Hot Chocolate was lovely as it contained cinnamon as well - was not a big fan of the Panettone but have been told it grows on you - and as there will be many opportunities to taste it with all the chocoltada's am sure it will grow on me! We'll see. 

Tables were laid out and the kids sat around the table while the chocolate was given to them with instructions that it was hot and to blow on it first before drinking from it, was so cute watching them all blow into their hot chocolate. Unfortunately some people ended up with the hot chocolate all over the table and them - that was not so cute as it looked sore.

The kids were all given little individual Panettone's as well with the covers featuring different cartoon characters, as usual with kids there was the chorus of I want the one he has not this one, so there was some Panettone swapping done - not that the covers made them taste any different and at the end of the day the covers ended up in the bin anyway!

Blowing on the hot chocolate

With the hot chocolate and Panettone's

It was nice to see the kids enjoy their Chocoltada and experience my first one as well. 

To see more pictures of the kids enjoying their Chocoltada please click here