Oro! Oro! y mas Oro!

Yesterday was a pretty easy day at school. We returned to learning about te different times we need to use the subjunctive. In this case we learned about using sunjunctive when displaying emotion like when you say you like something or something makes you nervous. This topic is something I had worked on before in my classes at Northeastern so I was able to comprehend all of the lesson easily but the refresher was nice. In the culture class we talked more about the colonial structure of government. For example in the colonies themselves the viceroys ruled with the nobles just below owning economiedas and the slaves and indigenous working the land. What came from this is a mix of culture.  Races such as the mestizos and the mulattos came to be from the mixing of cultures but with this so did prejudice. For lunch I tried papa rellena for the first time which is a potato stuffed with meat and cheese and then fried it was delicious but for dessert I had a canchita which was very similar to the pastry "lobster tails" which I love in Boston but here they use custard rather than cream which I actually prefer.

At UNIFE we started off our day playing a really fun trivia game in teams. The questions were about the World Cup and the history of it and my team got second! After the game we had a special lecture about the politics and economy of Peru which was also quite interesting because for example we learned that a large part of Peru's exports are raw materials like cotton and minerals.

  After UNIFE  we went to a private museum called el Museo de Oro or museum of gold. This museum was really cool and had a lot of interesting artifacts. Like a colecction of Napoleon's weapons including his guns and swords and they had the sword if Francisco Pizarro but underneath the building there is actually a vault filled with the golden artifacts of the ancient cultures of Peru. These artifacts exist because they weren't found by the Spanish. Some of the coolest artifacts were the Tumi knives which I had seen everywhere in Peru at souvenir shops and on the street. It was nice to finally know it's importance and the mythology behind the god that is usually put on top of the ceronial knife. I wish we had more time at the museum to explore some of the other artifacts but what we did see was amazing!