So everyday at 1 p.m. I get on a bus and make my way back across town for a two hour lunch or whatever you wanna do with it time known as a ciesta here in Peru. I know some other Latin Ameircan countries observe it as well. Now do not think that it is an expamle of laziness or something else becasue here in Peru the time is made up by returning to the office, the factory or the field at 3 p.m. and continuing to work unitl 6:30 or 7 p.m.
I can usually eat lunch and sneak in about 30 winks (a nap) during this time period. When I arrive at the Sulca-Tucno House Gloria, Rosa´s sister, is cooking lunch for the whole family. Usually tottling around the kitchen or at her feet is her two year old son Eddie, Jr. or Graham (pronounced Graahaam).
Lately when it has been time to eat, and because he is more comfortable with me being around, Graham tottles to my door (he tottles because he broke his femur bone earlier this year when a TV fell on it) and says ¨Isha, vamos a comer Ta Ta Ta!¨ The first time he did it I had no idea what Ta Ta Ta was. Gloria came and said Äre you ready to eat, Graham is asking you if you want to come and eat chicken with him.¨ How do you get let´s go eat chicken out of that? Ta Ta Ta is the sound a chicken makes in Peru (like cluck cluck in the US) and so that is how Eddie Graham says chicken. His dad (Eddie Grande) said that whenever they pass a polleria or chicken restaurant he stops, points, and says Ta Ta Ta, that he just loves chicken. Therefore Ta Ta Ta it is, vamos a comer (let´s go eat!).
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