The Adventures of Lynne

It's hard to imagine that I have been here at KUNIRAYA for a month! I will leave on Saturday to spend two days in Lima being a tourist. Christian and I are working furiously on the chicken coop in hopes of finishing by Saturday when I leave. This is the first Hallowe'en I've experienced where no ghosts or clever costumes will come to the door. I don't mind not being a teacher tomorrow! So from me to you, Happy Hallowe'en! On Monday, a new wwoofer friend came. Her name is Letetia and she's from Philadelphia. She's very beautiful and has good taste in music. Yesterday, Stephanie, Tauli and we three wwoofers went to the beach for the day. We saw beautiful pelicans quite up close, sea lions (lobo del mar, said Stephanie. Letetia looked it up and it translate as sea wolf. Oh well! They were so interesting and made such a funny growling sound), we saw seals too quite up close and gulls with red parts--not sure of their name. We went fishing  with...

I don't know if you can zoom in on your device, but this photo shows two parakeets (budgies). This is how they are in the wild! They are very pretty. I've seen them several times now. I've been here just over two weeks. I've enjoyed many tasks, especially making "lasagne" gardens. On Monday it was Thanksgiving in Canada, so I made a "Thanksgiving Dinner" without the usual ingredients which were hard to find here. For example, the pumpkin pie was made out of an unknown squash. There are huge green squashes for sale at the market. The vendors cut the squash for you and you pay for your piece by weight. I think it's called locro de zapallo but I couldn't say for certain. I added "coconut cream" instead of milk/cream, used coconut oil instead of shortening in the crust, and honey instead of sugar. I used cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger and it tasted great! It didn't quite taste or look like actual pumpkin pie but it was close enou...