Showing all the varieties of potatoes
How they cultivate them
Guinea pig... Funny story
Talking about medicinal uses of herbs
Skills, making a llama
Woke up sick this morning, no fun. Nikita and I were off to a late start so we just had to make a jelly and cheese sandwich and go. Carola made us gulp down some orange juice, I love fresh orange juice. =] After running to the pick up spot we waited for another 15 minutes, the bus was running late too. Then it was another long bus ride to another excursion. This one was to the potato park. The park isn't really a park, it is a huge development that the cusqueñas have made to preserve the diversity of the potato since industries now a days are only looking for uniformity to make french fries with. It is incredible how many different types of potatoes there are! They are extremely proud of their potatoes and love the work they are doing. You can tell by how passionate they were when talking about their efforts. After looking at the way they cultivate the potatoes and all the different potatoes they had at the moment, we went on another ride to a part of the park next to a lake where a festival was happening, we walked around and looked at all the animals and stuff we could buy. At one point they let someone hold a guinea pig but made them hold him by the neck, this poor guinea pig was passed around the entire group basically. When Nikita was holding him he looked kid of strange, then she handed him to me... Nikita took a picture, but then I noticed that he was acting kind of weird, instead of wiggling and moving about it was more like he was twitching... So I put him down and yeah he was DEAD! Super dead, he had the dead twitches. I took a picture with a dead guinea pig!!! No wonder he seemed floppy in Nikita's hands, I thought she was just holding him wrong, no dead, D-E-A-D, dead. The market people started laughing at us because we were freaking out! They poked him and wiggled him, but he was definitely dead, so they hid him under the blanket. I have no idea if he was just scared to death or when one of the kids just killed him on accident, but it was not a fun experience. Finally we decided we should scurry away from the crime scene before it got to terrible to handle. Not a good experience. Afterwards we got on the bus and the bus driver put a box of live guinea pigs in the undercarriage! Not a good day for guinea pigs. We then went and learned about herbs and saw a lady weaving. We had lunch at a buffet which was pretty good and then hung out for a while. The end of the day was pretty relaxing. When we got home Nikita and I found out we finally got internet and proceeded to talk with people. Then we went to a pizza place which was pretty good. When we got back I went to sleep because I was tired and sick. I had nightmares of dead guinea pigs...
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