Just wanted to include a few pictures from our "Pizza and Salsa" night. Thea, one of the girls from the program, has a host sister, Claudia, who is a national champion in
marinera, a tradidtional Peruvian dance. She has won over 40 championship, danced for the Norwegian princess and the Peruvian national soccer team, and is basically one of the best marinera dancers in the country. Naturally, her mom, Filomena, (who is in charge of the Center for adolescent mothers described in the last post) was super proud and brought out all of her trophes and prizes (see pictures).
Originally, were invited over to their house to bake pizza and learn to dance salsa, but after getting down the basic salsa steps (enough so that we can survive our first trip to the salsa club tonight!), we got to learn marinera, which was much more memorable. The dance is supposed to be a romantic courting dance, and everyone has handkerchiefs as props! The pictures below show Claudia instructing us, and us failing misorably...
Just wanted to include a few pictures from our "Pizza and Salsa" night. Thea, one of the girls from the program, has a host sister, Claudia, who is a national champion in marinera, a tradidtional Peruvian dance. She has won over 40 championship, danced for the Norwegian princess and the Peruvian national soccer team, and is basically one of the best marinera dancers in the country. Naturally, her mom, Filomena, (who is in charge of the Center for adolescent mothers described in the last post) was super proud and brought out all of her trophes and prizes (see pictures). 
3 comments:
Hei Janne,
godt du har litt danseerfaring fra før! Fint å lese om mødrehjemmet i Lima. Følger spent med på både din blogg og flere av de andre Hald-bloggerne i Peru. Skal si dere opplever mye. Farmor hilser.
Klem fra Trude
Hei Janne,
Så morsomt å lese om alt du opplever. Høres kjempegøy ut å danse salsa på salsa-klubb. Jeg var bøssebærer for TV-aksjonen i kveld med ei i klassa mi som har vært i Lima med Strømmestiftelsen (hun heter Marita). Hun sa at jeg burde dra å besøke deg. Høres ut som Iquitos er midt i jungelen. Hva mener du forresten med at du skal på utflukt til et varmere strøk? Er det kaldt i Lima nå? Håper alt står bra til med deg. Tenker mye på deg. Stor klem,
Linn
Hei Janne!
Eg var på La Restinga for to år sidan. De må berre glede dykk til de kjem til Iquitos! Heilt annleis enn Lima! Kjempekjekt at de har bloggar, eg gler meg til å følgje med i løpet av året!
Klem frå Elise
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