Today was a special day for the school. In Cusco every year a competition is held for the schools of Cusco to show their pride in their heritage. Each school forms a dance team and they are dressed in native costumes and they perform a dance in the Plaza de Armas. Since the families of Pumamarca are so poor, and because they live so far away, the school has never been able to compete in this competition. This year Peru's Challenge paid for the costumes and transport for the dance team. And for the first time the kids got to show the rest of Cusco what they are made of. And they did absolutely fantastic. The children have been practicing for a couple months and where definitely one of the better teams that performed today. Since I don't really know how the scoring works, I'm not sure how they OFFICALLY did but all of us here at Peru's Challenge we very proud, and we definitely cheered the loudest haha. It was a very touching experience to see how happy the kids were, we also prepared lunches for all of them. And as a thank you to us the kids held still for a few minutes to let us take photos with them. They are so nice haha.
After the competition some of us spent a little extra time in Plaza de Armas and went to a local cafe, then came back home. Liz and I had a Spanish lesson today at 2:30 and I spent the rest of the day just sorting out the details of my other trips while I am here.
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