Saturday afternoon, it was back to school for the annual arts festival. It was an incredible amount of work with amazing presentations. In fact, the entire courtyard was converted into an art gallery (see photo to the right).All of the artwork was for the students taking Art for the International Baccalaureate and I was stunned to learn that an IB representative goes to each and every school to grade the artwork. That's 2,410 schools in 131 countries!!
While a lot of the art wasn't my cup of tea, there were some excellent pieces.
Two of my favorites were the pieces to the right. The Incan smashing the Spaniard, who is holding a shield with the coca-cola symbol, with the national soda Inca Cola. Very well put. The other I just...well, I just liked it.My third favorite piece was centered around the October 2007 attack an Ecuadorean girl received while riding the Metro in Barcelona. It included an image of the European map, a map floating on metal sticks, the Spanish and Ecuadorean flag, and a laptop playing the metro videocamera footage (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLUTNC5KUY). Powerful stuff.
We left halfway through (skipping most of the dance and music performances, I must admit) and went to eat...drum roll...Indian food! Arturo discovered an Indian restaurant which is, as far as we're aware, the only one in Lima. The food was pretty good and the owner/chef is really from Indian (he came out and met us). We will definitely go back there again!After dinner, we decided to go for some 'cosmic' bowling with black lights and glow-in-the-dark balls and lanes. Arturo and I lost, but we managed to have some fun. Anna and I enjoyed the Abba en español music played and we all enjoyed Rick's extreme follow-through of staying on his knees, often clasping his hands together in almost a praying pose.
On Sunday, for the second weekend in a row, Arturo came up with a brilliant idea. We drove 45 minutes to Chacaclayo and began the dream of living there. It's outside of the city of Lima, the weather is beautiful, the neighborhood peaceful, friendly, safe and just overall lovely.
The best part was that the husband of one of real estate agents is the manager at one of the local clubs and he invited us to enjoy the club for lunch. We went and I have revised my idea of not joining a club in Peru.
"Clubs" are much more a part of life here than I am used to. It provides a safe, tranquil environment where people can enjoy life. Actually, it reminded me of a mini-Central Park...but with camping!
So, we had a lovely lunch, saw the pool, football field, tennis court and camping area...Of course, it's all a dream, and it is a bit far...but what a great dream to end out weekend with!
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