It is now sunday, 7 pm and I just got back from a trip to Túcume and Lambayeque - what an experience! But to start chronologically, I'll get to that later...Teaching in the "Carlos Weiss" School in Monsefú is the best start of my backpacking trip that I can imagine. The kids here are very nice to me, the teachers the same. So far I had classes with 8 different grades and I can say that teaching can be fun. Well, to be honest, I prefer the upper classes - a group of almost 40 kids in the age of 6 years are not easy to handle :-) They get so excited about everything that they run to the front of the class to tell me personally which makes it rather difficult to teach. I've noticed some tricks though that seem to be working - make them write - a lot. That way they are too occupied to do anything else. But it's got to be said that I'm glad about the way they treat me - just imagine coming to class to teach english and all of the kids start jumping because you finally also came to their class!
In the afternoons I spent my time going to a class of dances. After I've seen them in the competitions (they were the best) I wanted to be able to do the same. Well, I overestimated myself or underestimated the dance. It's so hard! Try to find "tondero Chiclayo" in youtube. Unfortunately, I couldn't find theone they are dancing, but the steps are similar. They have a very good teacher, Julio who studies dances in Chiclayo. When he explains steps I'm not able to get even a half of it... I'll upload the pics soon - they are on a different camera. The group competed this saturday again, this time in Chiclayo and - big "surprise" - won again the first place!
Oh, now a rather embarassing story - Friday was the 120th anniversary of Monsefú. By the end of the day everybody would know me. Why? Well in such events all of the schools march to the main square dressed up and carrying music instruments, flag of the school and of course the flag of Peru. The oficial time to start was 9 am but just as anything around here, that is not the time it will actually start. I think by 10.30 the party could begin (and yes I got sunburned). Now imagine - first the Peru hymn, than the one of the area and finally the hymn of Monsefú (which goes: yo soy de Monsefú). Than, we would all march down the square in front of a tribune where each school would be announced. Now, Tannia wanted me to march along. Neither she or me could expect that as I walked close to the Tribune, they would announce me as "Lucia de Alemania"! Well, I'm not German but anyhow - how did they get the info of my name and place?!? This town is small, but not that small... And it will get even better - the next thing they said was "viva la Republica de Alemania"! I still have to laugh when I think of that :-)
And so, to get to my today trip, after a full week of teaching, 
dancing, going to dance competitions, one concert and one presentation of a bank about the world financial crisis and its ifluence n Peru, I had a day FREE and decided to spend it in the Museums nearby. I took 4 different "collectivos" - which is something between a combi and a bus and is (honestly) ment for about 23 people - to Túcume to see some pyramids. Now, if you expect the pyramids to be anything like the ones in Egypt, you'd be surprised. To be honest, it took me a while to realise that the hill I was looking at was a pyramid - changed by weather it looks very much alike... Another interesting aspect of this museum was that half of the time I was not sure I'm going the right way - there were almost 
no signs... From there I took another collectivo to Lambayeque (capital of this region) to see first the "Brunning museum" founded by a German and then to "Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán". The first one shows artifacts from all periods and I could take pics in there, the second one shows the period around 100-300 AC.
dancing, going to dance competitions, one concert and one presentation of a bank about the world financial crisis and its ifluence n Peru, I had a day FREE and decided to spend it in the Museums nearby. I took 4 different "collectivos" - which is something between a combi and a bus and is (honestly) ment for about 23 people - to Túcume to see some pyramids. Now, if you expect the pyramids to be anything like the ones in Egypt, you'd be surprised. To be honest, it took me a while to realise that the hill I was looking at was a pyramid - changed by weather it looks very much alike... Another interesting aspect of this museum was that half of the time I was not sure I'm going the right way - there were almost 
no signs... From there I took another collectivo to Lambayeque (capital of this region) to see first the "Brunning museum" founded by a German and then to "Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán". The first one shows artifacts from all periods and I could take pics in there, the second one shows the period around 100-300 AC.So now I could catch up with some culture over here and can start another week of teaching - having 7 year-olds tomorrow. I hope you´re doing all well and if you find some spare time, drop me a few lines about how you´re doing.
Besos, Lucia
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