Huancho
lima - Puno
Group # 0 4
This place
is located in Huancane, Huancane, Puno. It takes around twenty four hours in
order to arrive to Huancho - lima.
Huancho –
Lima is denominated as that name because it was the capital of Peru for three
days. There was a revolution there. It was said by Mr. Saturnino who is a senior
citizen.
We were twenty
four students who went to Huancho – Lima and one teacher who may not be the
best teacher but anyway, we were there to apply our projects and knowledge.
But in this case, I went with Mabel who is my friend from the university. We
were there for one month. We were living at 72232 Huancho bajo - school. It is
said that the school was cemetery so that everybody was frightened of it. I can
say that we heard and saw unusual things. Anyway, we had a wonderful experience!
I forgot to
mention about Chester. It is a dog that we met at the school. After many
strange things were happening, Chester appeared as an angel and we felt more
relaxed and he was our pet. We wanted to bring him but we could not do it.
Something
that catches my attention was that Huancho – Lima does not have cemetery.
Nowadays, people from there bury their deads in their house.
On the other
hand, in case of our feeding, we had to cook by ourselves but I feel grateful with
the people from Huancho – lima because they gave us potato, chuño, and other
kind of food. Sometimes people who cooked for the students used to invite us.
In case of
our project, we did a greenhouse (Biohuerto) , library and workshops. Mabel and
I, who were from languages, taught to
elementary school in the morning while in the afternoon Mabel taught to
children from elementary school and I taught students from high school. There
were a few drawbacks to teach them because there were no enough room,
photocopies or sometimes the weather was a problem. Keep in mind that students
from high school came after their class from their school finished. It took
thirty minutes by bicycle and around one hour in case they wanted to assist to
our classes.
Fortunately,
the government gave one bicycle to the student from high school because many of
them live far away.
Finally, I am
going to report the touristic places where we went.
- We went to the “farewall” with the
mayor but unfortunately it was not there because it did not rain. Then, we went
to a cave. It was great. We walk a lot! :)
- We went to San Antonio de Putina. It
has a beautiful church and some places to visit and spend time with friends
from our group.
- We went to Huancané because people
from our community had a competition with other communities. The completion is
about what they sell. In this case our community sold fried beans (habas
fritas) , a drink made of pineapple and broad beans (habas) and cakes made of
broad beans and others. Fortunately, we won the second prize.
- The last days before coming we were
in Puno, Desaguadero and La paz, Bolivia.
That was it. I really hope you enjoyed reading
and thanks for the time you took for reading my report.
