Last year I
spent Christmas in Huallanca and had a wonderful experience. This year I
decided to spend Christmas in Lima with my boyfriend and his family and it was
VERY different from my Christmas experience last year. Wealthy Lima is a
totally different world from the world that I know in Peru. Basically when I am
in Lima, I feel like I am in the US because the culture and daily life so
similar in so many ways to life in the US. The wealthy Lima culture is very
modern and western and not at all like the Andean/Indigenous culture of the
part of Peru where I live. Which is why I say that I had a very
"white" Christmas this year because it was celebrated with literally very white and "western" people. There was no hot chocolate, no paneton, no huayno music, not dirt floors or dirt houses, no drinking or dancing all night. Every thing was just so normal and so clearn and I swear that I could have been in the US. So basically
this Christmas was completely different from how I spent it in the mountains
last year but it was still wonderful. In Peru they celebrate Christmas on the
night of the 24th at midnight. At midnight everyone hugs and kisses each person
and says "Feliz Navidad"(merry christmas) and the kids open their
presents. In the mountains, the party is just getting started for the adults
but in Lima after midnight everyone just went to bed.
Something else wierd is that it's now officially summer time on the coast in Lima and it's very hot and humid! So this Chrsitmas was a very sweaty one for me because of the weather and we have been spending a lot of time hanging by the pool or at the beach with our friends. Which I am definitely not complaining about because it's a good change for me from the cold mountain weather where I live!
On
Christmas eve I was lucky enough to get to spend the day with my big brother
and my sister-in-law and her parents who are visiting from San Diego. We had a
great time spending the day in Lima and catching up :) They are currently
visiting other parts of Peru and we will be reunited in Huaraz in a few days to
spent New Years together!
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| The Christmas tree at Jerry's sisters house (see this could be your average house in the US!) |
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| Christmas eve |
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| Jerry and his niece and nephew |
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| Christmas eve dinner |
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| Jerry's sister and her husband and two of her kids (we spent christmas with them and the husband's family in Lima) |
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| Christmas day |
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| Christmas day |
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| Christmas day |
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| We spent the day after Christmas at our friends house laying by the pool |
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| Making a toast with some close friends |
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| Toasting again with our friends on the beach |
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| Summer has arrived in Lima and I am looking forward to the weekends when I can visit to spend laying by the pool or at the beach with our friends in Lima :) |
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| Another day spent at a different friends beach house :) |
I wish a very happy holidays to every one back home! I love you all and miss you! Thanks for all of your support!
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