Yay! We recently completed a project in which we worked with two families to pipe water from a spring to their houses. So, of course, we had to party, which led to Andy dancing, or something like it. His partner is the woman of the house, who later in the evening laughingly told me that she probably should be worried about becoming lazy now that she doesn't have to carry her family's water from far away (doubt it, since other work she has during the day includes carrying wood so she can cook three meals for her family and whoever is working with her family, doing all the washing, and, oh yeah, also doing almost all the same work that her husband does in their potato fields and markets). The guy at the end of the video had decided the world needed to know his name, so he's shouting it at me and the camera.
Here are some other fotos of the celebration:
Lest you think I wasn't getting in on the fun.
The parents of the families and us at the spring. About 10 seconds later we were shaking out beer bottles and spraying foaming beer all over the place.
I didn't know this girl's name five minutes before, but her parents had left the party for a minute and she somehow decided I was the safest one to latch onto. Perhaps, compared to the rest of the partiers, I just looked pretty tame and cozy in my tan sweater and brown shawl (it was cold).
Other than dancing, this is what the party involved...a lot of people sitting around talking and pouring eachother beer or chicha (fermented drink homemade from corn).
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