Glossary

Glossary:

Altiplano: High plateau of the Andes at an altitude of about 4000 m.a.s.l. reaching from southern Peru over Bolivia to northern Chile
Arequipa: Provincial capital in the South Peruvian Andes. Second most important town of the country
asado: BBQ
Araucanía: The province of Chile in which Pucón is located
Ceviche: Kind of salad of marinated, raw fish or seafood
Cevicheria: Restaurant specialized in Ceviche
Chicha: maize beer
Chiriuchu: Typical plate served for Corpus Christi in Cusco
Chuño: Dehydrated potatoes
Combi: Minibuses, public transport in Arequipa
Cayma: District of Arequipa
Inca: a.) Precolumbian people in the Peruvian Andes, b.) The leader of the Inca nation
Machu Picchu: Quechua for "old mountain", a.) a mountain in the Cusco area, b.) the village close to the ruins of the same name, c.) the archaeological excavation of the ancient Inca settlement
Malbec: Red Wine, typical for Argentina
Mapuche: Native people of southern Chile
Nuevo Sol: Currency of Peru, S/. 1 = 0,33 €
Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet and winner of the Nobel Prize
Pisco: Destillate of grapes, Peruvian and Chilean national drink
Plaza de Armas: Generally the name of the main square of Latin american towns
Quechua: Spanish term for the language of the Incas
Santiago (de Chile): capital of Chile
Sillar: white, volcanic rock of which the old town of Arequipa is mainly constructed
Temuco: capital of the Araucanía
Valparaiso: Port town and UNESCO World Heritage Site
Yanahuara: District of Arequipa

Saturday, 23 April 2011

Easter in Autumn

Found them all
Summer has gone and fall came over the south of Chile. This here is the season of lumberjack sounds. Everybody is preparing fire wood for the coming winter and so wherever someone is going he is accompanied by the sounds of chain saws and axes. I really like that season especially because this year so far the weather was really pleasant and heavy rainfalls seem to come slowly only. I piled 30 cubic metres of fire wood as well in our garden and prepared the house for the winter, insulating doors and windows, cleaning the chimnies and making various reparations. I redesigned the kitchen after another water damage and built a big cupboard in our bedroom. Now I am painting the bathroom. There is always something to do! The project of our sauna is becoming concrete, plans are designed and next week the construction will start. Slowly I am getting a little nervous because I never started a project that big and we do not know how it will work, can just hope and try to do our best. Anyway, at least I am going to have my own sauna in the garden which definitely will help me to survive the winter over here.
Yesterday I handicrafted small baskets for the Easter eggs with the kids and we coloured the eggs of our own hens to put them in tomorrow. That for today we had onions soup for lunch, because I always colour the eggs with onion skins and so this is my traditional Easter meal. It actually is one of the few European meals I prepare which all of the kids like. Tomorrow it will rain how it already did the last three days so we probably will hide the Easter baskets in the house and for sure searching for them is going to be an big event. Hopefully we won't have to clean the whole house from broken eggs.