I ATE CUY.

I´ve been pretty busy these past few days and not had time to get online! There´s so much to talk about and I only have a few mins left. I´ll write about everything else later- my students and such. For now, let me tell you about last night. Last night I ate cuy. Julio took me down this street that is lined with tons of cuy on sticks and entire pigs on some kind of wooden stand in front of the ´restaurant´. He asked me if I wanted to try it... I really wasn´t prepared at all... but I did. The woman cut the thing in half and gave us the back legs on top of mote and delicious tiny potatoes. ughhh cuy. The meat itself was fine- didn´t taste very different. But the texture of the skin was a bit much. SO TOUGH. They actually call the skin cuero, which literally means leather! ahhh I can´t believe I ate that thing. I crunched on its little bones. I even took a bite of the liver. Julio ate it´s feet. aahhh. Good thing I´ve never had a cuy for a pet. Don´t worry, I HAVE PROOF. He took pics on his phone cause I didn´t have my camera- I´ll get those up soon! But as we were leaving and paying the lady, her mama (a grandmother) asked her, ´the gringa did eat the cuy?´haha. Yeah, we were the only ones in the place so the entire family was watching us eat it from the other side of the room. So there you have it. I ate cuy.