somewhere under the sky

II

to continue with Kapac Raymi, someone i was talking to about it mentioned how christmas is the celebration of the new King - Jesus. and so around this time the indigenous also celebrated new leaders, so it was easy to transpose the one onto the other. yesterday started celebrations of Kapac Raymi in a different community. there was a dance competition and an invited group of music but it was terribly cold and i didn´t even stay to dance.

i´m very pleased to say it has rained the past couple days in saraguro and it seems winter is finally here. not like winter on the east coast of course, but winter is needed here too. the drought has affected not only crops...Ecuador gets most of their energy from hydroelectricty, which means when there´s no water, there´s no energy either. to save energy the government has been cutting electricity by regions for a few hours a day. in city centers of course, businesses are subsequently affected by this. in turn, i imagine it has created much more business for sellers of generators, since businesses started buying them to keep from closing.

in Saraguro the celebrations and activities continue. nothing interesting comes to mind at this moment although in the past week i have had many conversations and experiences that have taught me. hopefully next time i´ll have something more interesting to say...

posted by leah v @ 11:32 AM