Texas Hold Em

This week is my school's anniversary (42 years I think) so we have had some competitions/contests, and each grade has prepared a dance (I will not be participating but I will take pictures) so I think one day there will be a presentation of all the dances.  We are also having a sports competition day, and I am on a basketball team.  I love playing basketball here because I'm actually considered good ;)  Occasionally I play during recess with classmates. 

Also today, my host brother convinced me to play poker with him.  I was hesitant at first, not because I don't believe in gambling, but because I didn't have any clue how to play and I didn't think it would be fun.  But I agreed, and we bet some American candy I brought instead of money.  He taught me the basics and I pulled up the different hand formations on my computer, and I told him that if by some miracle I won, he had to buy me pizza for dinner because I was hungry and really wanted pizza haha.  We played two games and I won both.  It was awesome.  Most of the time I just threw down chips and didn't really know what I was doing, and was just looking for pairs haha but it worked out well and now I get pizza for dinner :D

Going backwards now:
On Sunday my host family and I took a trip to Chosica and just kind of chilled, saw a few different things, had lunch at a restaurant, and also encountered some llamas.  Here's some pics:

Above is a pic of an ice cream stand that had pretty cool ice cream flavors, many made from exotic peruvian fruits.  Some examples can be found on the sign in the picture:  Chirimoya, Higo, I think Palta means avocado..yuck I wouldn't want that as an ice cream flavor..

Anyways, I got strawberry and a flavor I think was called Maracuya but I'm not quite sure..  whatever it was called, it tasted good.

And as I previously mentioned, we encountered two llamas, a black one and a white one.  My host brother and I both took photos by them:

And below is a picture of me eating a peruvian fruit that I don't remember the name of:

And there was also a nice river.  A woman was doing her laundry there, and I also saw a child being bathed there.

And this was just a nice view taken off of a bridge over the railroad tracks:

 

Oh and one more thing, this is a picture of a drink called Chicha Morada that I tried at a restaurant when we had lunch in Chosica.  It is made from purple corn.  I did not particularly enjoy it.

 

Okay that is all for now.  I hope everyone is enjoying reading.  Please leave comments if you would like to have specific questions answered or anything.  Bye!