HOLA 2010!! Feliz Ano Nueno mis amigos! I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Years Eve last night!! In Peru they do things a bit differently! For starters EVERYTHING is yellow. From confetti to face-masks to balloons, EVERYTHING is yellow! It's crazy. They have venders covering the streets of the plaza, and the pedestrian walkway leading up to the market. Inside the covered market you can get anything from meat, cheese, herbs, electronics, new years decorations, school supplies, candles, etc. But yesterday especially, because Amelia and I went back two days in a row, for picture taking, the market was packed! The side street to the market yellow flowers and Ruda (an herb that you can either wash in or rub over your clothes right before the new year for good luck in the new year) overflowed the streets, as well as people trying to sell every type of firework. When the clock struck 12 on xmas eve and the beginning of Christmas the Peruvians celebrate by setting off fireworks. I thought there were a lot that night but last night was something I've never seen!! My house mates and myself decided that we were going to just hang at our house because we'd heard that some of the discotechas had rival wars between each other and people died. I didn't really want to be apart of a discotecha war, so we had a fire on our roof deck instead. The moon was so bright and clouds loomed in the distance of the mountains, with warning flashes of lighting, we didn't know if we were going to have a dry countdown. We lit the fire, had it going for about 2 hours then the inevitable RAIN. Miraculously, the rain cleared 20 mins before the countdown, so up to the roof we went again to see the coolest thing I've ever seen! We have a roof deck but then there's another plateau where our water and oil tanks live, so we climbed up there to get a 360 degree view. 5 mins before the countdown and until about 20 mins after the New Year, I want to say around 200,000 fireworks went off, not an exaggeration!! From small bottle rockets to huge beautiful fireworks!! It was the most amazing experience. The whole time I kept screaming I LOVE FIREWORKS, since Ayacucho is so small it felt like we were going to be killed for 50% of it because people just shot them off small patios and hope everything turns out okay. The air quality started out clear and by 12:20 we could barely see the top of the mountains, so much smoke! I got some good pictures of everything but Kaisa got a video which hopefully captured how loud everything was! But just wanted to update everyone!!! HAPPY 2010!!
xo
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