Feliz Anniversario

Every year the Hogar has a huge party on January 16th to celebrate its anniversary. The teacher and the social worker organize it and get almost everything donated. This year was the 17th anniversary and the party was crazy fun.

The kids worked on traditional dances for weeks beforehand, and they asked Danielle and I to join in since the home has far more boys than girls.  As you can see, I got the better costume.

One of the funny things about Peru is that people just regularly refer to being from the jungle.  Like, the jungle.  I never even really thought of the jungle as a real thing before coming to Peru.  They called the dance below simply "Selva" which means jungle.  The kids were SO cute in their facepaint and native costumes.

After the kids' dances and some songs, most of the younger kids scampered inside and there was a many-hours-long dance party.  Peruvians love to dance, con or sin alcohol.  So fun!

Feliz Anniversario to the Hogar and thanks to everyone who donated to the mural restoration fund! I'll have updates and photos of the murals soon.