Fiesta in the countryside
On Sunday the family with whom I am staying and two of their friends took me about 35 kilometres outside of Cochabamba for a Fiesta. On some levels it was very much like a country fair back home. Alot more food and all of it hot. The food specialty of the area is duck and rabbit. The rabbit looked a little too much like rabbit for my taste but the duck was great. Most of the people here are of indigenous descent and almost all of the servers and vendors dress traditionally.
The other specialty of the region is chicha, a drink made out of corn. You can see in the pic how they drink it. The guy with the bucket is clowning around by drinking from the bucket. They bring it in a bucket and share it around drinking from a kind of gourd, see the guy on the right. And boy do they drink. While we were watching the World Cup on TV, they finished off about 3 buckets for five people and that was after they already had two buckets and two pitchers at lunch. I had one taste and decided it was way too strong for me. Guess I better get my drinking up to speed if I am going to hang out with Bolvians
posted by Judy Rebick @ 11:42 AM
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Hmmm...comparing this to the Motorcycle Diaries, I think it needs a little spice.
Here are some ideas:
1-Start a raunchy affair with a married man.2-When the family is asleep, kill and eat one of their chickens and see if anyone notices. 3-Get outraged if you witness any non-gender-neutral language being used.4-Demand that they have seperate washrooms for transgendered people.5-Get arrested and give us the perspective from a Bolivian prison.
Seriously though, the interesting thing about that part of the world is the Bolivarian revolution - and the reclamation of natural resources. In your opinion, which approach do you think works better - Morales' nationalizing of the companies or Chavez' demand for higher taxes and royalties?
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