Something fishy

The weekend before last (May 28th) there was a march for all the schools in Pacasmayo.  Only our older kids went and I volunteered to take them.  Everything went pretty good, but there was a little bit of excitement.  Halfway through the Mayor's speech in the middle of the square where all the people were gathered, everyone all of a sudden started screaming and running all over the place.  I was on an elevated view point and I could see the whole crowd just instantly disperse with screaming and frantic running.  I had no idea what happened so I ran down to where the kids where.  That when I found out that everyone was running because a wave had come over the guard rail.  I guess people though a tsunami was coming.  

 

Wednesday of last week we had someone donate a fish to the orphanage.  The fish lasted three full days for the entire orphanage and it was delicious.  Below is a picture of our cook Filomena preparing it.  

This past weekend was great.  Saturday we played soccer all afternoon and then I went to Pastor Aulden and Wendy's house with Sam for some delicious meat loaf and the Best Ever Chocolate cake recipe provided by my mom.  Yesterday I pushed myself and ran with the boys to Jeque.  I made it about 5k before I was just too tired to keep going, they made it about 8k almost all the way to the river where we jumped in.  I think that was the farthest I have really ever run.  I was actually pretty proud of myself considering that I haven't ran at all in the last 2 years.  

The presidential election was yesterday.  Ollanta won.  He is considered by many to be a militant leader and possibly be very similar to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.  Hopefully he does not turn out to be like that.  He won by a very small margin the total vote was something like 50.8% to 49.2%.  One thing that is good news is that the congress is very diverse and at this point there is no majority so getting things to quickly change will be difficult.