So there haven't been that many opportunities yet to get out to the villages but I managed to sneak in a couple of visits before Christmas. One was a weekend visit with a local church youth group to Curahuasi, a town about 90 minutes journey from here.
They had planned a Christmas kids' club, and the way it's done here is to turn up, set up, then dress up in a silly costume and go recruiting kids... so we did.
There were songs... games... prayers... and general fun.
I chatted to a few of the girls who didn't join in the activities because they were looking after their younger siblings, or talked to a few of the mums. It was great to be able to explain to some that Christmas was a celebration of Jesus' birthday, and to find out generally a bit more about what life is like here.
We gave out chocolatada (hot chocolate) and paneton (fruit bread), both
very traditional at Christmas. We had more than double the expected
number of people with parents as well, but after a loooong time of
counting the queue and counting the paneton and praying there was enough
for all the kids and parents and even the helpers.
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