Easter and around our Home
Hello again everyone~
It has been awhile since you've heard from me, hasn't it? My apologies for the lengthy time between posts on the blog, but Marianella and I have settled into a pretty mundane routine since we visited Parracas Reserve. Mundane in the sense that we are both currently working-Marianella full time with her class of vivacious first graders and myself on a part-time basis at Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American school in Lima where I have been hired. I will begin working full-time in August, so currently I have been going in a few times a week to meet some of the students and parents, attend meetings, and get an overall feel for the job. It's a nice way to break into the job and should set me up pretty well when I do start full-time.
With our weeks devoted to work, we have cut back on our exotic travel schedule. We did have a nice break in the schedule last week, with school and many businesses in Peru closed from Thursday through Sunday due to Easter weekend. We had entertained some thoughts of taking a trip somewhere over the long weekend, but instead we stayed in the area and spent time with Marianella's family and a friend (soon to be explained).
We started our recognition of Easter weekend by doing the traditional Peruvian custom of visiting 7 Churches on Good Friday. We were fortunate to have Marianella's friend Javier serve as our companion/tour guide that morning, because otherwise we would have had trouble finding our seventh Church that day. The pictures that follow are of each of the seven Churches that we visited, plus a picture of the Cathedral that we were not able to get into that morning. It's quite amazing to consider that each of these Churches were within a 10 minute walk of the Cathedral, so it made our task easier.
The Lima Cathedral:
San Pedro:
San Francisco:
La Merced:
El Carmen:
Unsure of the name:
The smallest and first cathedral of Lima (Marianella with Javier):
On Easter Sunday, Marianella and I hosted Easter dinner for her family. It originally was going to be a small affair (just her parents, brother, and us), but by the end of Good Friday our guest list had expanded to 11. It added to the excitement of the Easter egg hunt though, which was an American tradition I was able to introduce to Marianella's family. I was unsure how they would take to it, but it was with full enthusiasm and rearrangement of our apartment. After the Easter egg hunt finished, we settled into a wonderful meal prepared by Marianella of baked fish (Peruvian tradition for Easter), roasted potatoes, and salads. It was such a nutritous meal that we had to top it off with an ice cream blueberry cheesecake, just to give our diet some balance :).
The winner of the Easter Egg Hunt:
Diving into the feast:
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When I was home in January/February, I had a couple requests to include photos of our home, so I've included a couple below, from the neighborhood. In the future I'll probably mix in a few here and there to spice up the blog.
This is the park about five blocks from our place, greeting visitors to San Borja:
This is the outside of our apartment (we're located in the top left corner):
Also a couple other items to let you all know about. I found out recently that my leave of absence from South Washington County School District was denied for a second year, so I have resigned from my job in the school district. It wasn't too big of a surprise and actually made decision making for Marianella and myself a bit easier, as we had been considering extending our stay down in Peru beyond the original 2 year plan. With this news, it pretty much guarantees you will be down here for a bit longer, we're just not sure how long yet. One of the great things about our jobs though is that we're able to have extended times off of work, so I'll still be able to get back to the States relatively often.
The other item of business is I have found out that my current renters are moving out of our house in St. Paul, so if you have anyone (well, not just anyone-someone responsible and trustworthy) in mind that might be looking to rent in the Twin Cities area, please let me and them now about this possibility. I'm anticipating that it'll be available on August 1st.
Alright, that is all for now. . .enjoy that beautiful weather that should be arriving soon, if it hasn't already. It's finally starting to cool off a bit in Peru and we are happy about that-I'm looking forward to spending a winter where the temperture doesn't dip below 50 degrees :). Take care everyone~Tim
It has been awhile since you've heard from me, hasn't it? My apologies for the lengthy time between posts on the blog, but Marianella and I have settled into a pretty mundane routine since we visited Parracas Reserve. Mundane in the sense that we are both currently working-Marianella full time with her class of vivacious first graders and myself on a part-time basis at Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American school in Lima where I have been hired. I will begin working full-time in August, so currently I have been going in a few times a week to meet some of the students and parents, attend meetings, and get an overall feel for the job. It's a nice way to break into the job and should set me up pretty well when I do start full-time.
With our weeks devoted to work, we have cut back on our exotic travel schedule. We did have a nice break in the schedule last week, with school and many businesses in Peru closed from Thursday through Sunday due to Easter weekend. We had entertained some thoughts of taking a trip somewhere over the long weekend, but instead we stayed in the area and spent time with Marianella's family and a friend (soon to be explained).
We started our recognition of Easter weekend by doing the traditional Peruvian custom of visiting 7 Churches on Good Friday. We were fortunate to have Marianella's friend Javier serve as our companion/tour guide that morning, because otherwise we would have had trouble finding our seventh Church that day. The pictures that follow are of each of the seven Churches that we visited, plus a picture of the Cathedral that we were not able to get into that morning. It's quite amazing to consider that each of these Churches were within a 10 minute walk of the Cathedral, so it made our task easier.
The Lima Cathedral:
San Pedro:
San Francisco:
La Merced:
El Carmen:
Unsure of the name:
The smallest and first cathedral of Lima (Marianella with Javier):
On Easter Sunday, Marianella and I hosted Easter dinner for her family. It originally was going to be a small affair (just her parents, brother, and us), but by the end of Good Friday our guest list had expanded to 11. It added to the excitement of the Easter egg hunt though, which was an American tradition I was able to introduce to Marianella's family. I was unsure how they would take to it, but it was with full enthusiasm and rearrangement of our apartment. After the Easter egg hunt finished, we settled into a wonderful meal prepared by Marianella of baked fish (Peruvian tradition for Easter), roasted potatoes, and salads. It was such a nutritous meal that we had to top it off with an ice cream blueberry cheesecake, just to give our diet some balance :).
The winner of the Easter Egg Hunt:
Diving into the feast:
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When I was home in January/February, I had a couple requests to include photos of our home, so I've included a couple below, from the neighborhood. In the future I'll probably mix in a few here and there to spice up the blog.
This is the park about five blocks from our place, greeting visitors to San Borja:
This is the outside of our apartment (we're located in the top left corner):
Also a couple other items to let you all know about. I found out recently that my leave of absence from South Washington County School District was denied for a second year, so I have resigned from my job in the school district. It wasn't too big of a surprise and actually made decision making for Marianella and myself a bit easier, as we had been considering extending our stay down in Peru beyond the original 2 year plan. With this news, it pretty much guarantees you will be down here for a bit longer, we're just not sure how long yet. One of the great things about our jobs though is that we're able to have extended times off of work, so I'll still be able to get back to the States relatively often.
The other item of business is I have found out that my current renters are moving out of our house in St. Paul, so if you have anyone (well, not just anyone-someone responsible and trustworthy) in mind that might be looking to rent in the Twin Cities area, please let me and them now about this possibility. I'm anticipating that it'll be available on August 1st.
Alright, that is all for now. . .enjoy that beautiful weather that should be arriving soon, if it hasn't already. It's finally starting to cool off a bit in Peru and we are happy about that-I'm looking forward to spending a winter where the temperture doesn't dip below 50 degrees :). Take care everyone~Tim
Comments
Hope all is well,
Jimmy
It's weird to think you're now going into winter as we are having record breaking temperatures here in LA. Today it's supposed to hit 100....yuck..it is far to early for these extreme temperatures. Hope it isn't a sampling of how summer's going to be. We have been busy planning the wedding and understand you guys wont be able to attend but we'll send some photos. Got to get back to work but tell everyone hello from us.
Carol