The Big Field Trip

     My family and I have been living in Cajamarca for about five weeks. Cajamarca is a city in Peru. We have been living in a four story building. Maruja is the owner of the house. She is a nurse. When Cruz (my brother) got a big cut in his head, she braided it together. It was like one inch wide. He still has a scar. In the morning Maruja always wants to buy Cruz gum. She says, “Cruzito, quieres chicle?”, which means “Little Cruz, do you want gum?”. She is very generous.

From The Big Field Trip – Peru, November 2008

     Cyrus and my room is the first room on the left. My mom and dad and Cruz’s room is last on the left. The kitchen is first on the right and the living room is last on the right. When I play with Cruz we usually play downstairs. We water the plants and play with the scateboard. It almost tripped my mom when she came in the door.

From The Big Field Trip – Peru, November 2008

     One night I heard something that sounded like an old man who had been smoking for a lot of years. But it was a cat! I call him the Screaching Grandpa Cat. I wake up to a dog barking most mornings. He is goldish, orangish, yellow. A big black dog bites it and fights it, and every day that I see it it has more and more scratches.

     When you walk around town, you see lots of awesome sites. When I first walk out my front door, a dog with a pink collar greets me, beging for food. I keep some dog food in my pocket to feed her. I probably shouldn’t have given it food because if I forget to bring dog food it follows me all around town. I call her “The Dog with the Pink Collar”.

From The Big Field Trip – Peru, November 2008

     When you walk to the end of our block you can go into a panaderia, which means bread shop. You can get many different kinds of bread. It is sometimes difficult to decide which kind of bread to choose. I like the kind of bread called panecitos, which means little bread.

     When you cross our street there is a bookstore where we buy notebooks, folders, and markers. When you pass the breadshop and go left you will get to a design shop. Most of the time there is a kitten there. She is sometimes behind the desk. She is white and has a spot of grey, white, orange, and yellow mixed together.

From The Big Field Trip – Peru, November 2008

     When we go to a market we get food and toilet paper. I got a dragon egg there. The people who sell meat use an axe to cut the meat because it cuts through the bone. Dogs, sick and hungry, trot around. Sometimes they even steal food. I like the market of all of the different kinds of food. My favorite foods from the market are jello and kiwi.

From The Big Field Trip – Peru, November 2008

     The main plaza in Cajamarca is the Plaza de Armas. It was built on the old Inca Plaza. There is a water fountian in the middle of the plaza. Boys and girls hold hands, sit on benches, and walk around. People sell sunglasses when it is sunny, umbrellas when it is rainy, and there are carts of candy all the time. I like to buy Bubblues when I go to there. Bubblues is gum that has juice insie that blasts out. I run around and play on the walls with Cruz at the plaza. Once a security guard said, “You can’t climb on things, and you can’t go on the grass”, but nobody ever listens.

From The Big Field Trip – Peru, November 2008

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