Tuesday brought us one step closer to the end of the academic portion of the trip. Classes at "El Sol" were followed by another trip to UNIFE. Today involved a current events presentation, that focused mainly on the election, which by the way, the winner was finally officially announced after two days of slight uncertainty. PPK, the economist/gringo won by a very slim percentage. Afterwards there was a lecture on Peruvian foods, which included some sampling at the end. The influences on the food here are from India, China, Japan, Spain, Italian and the indigenous people. There are also large differences in the food when Peru's three major regions, the coast, the mountains, and the jungle are compared. Varying crops, influences, and levels of spiciness separate the regions. Finally, we ended the day with Northeastern presentations about Peruvian history, to be translated by the UNIFE students. I was up today and made my presentation of the emergence of the Creole conscious pretty smoothly. The main idea of the presentation was how being treated as second class citizens and having their country used purely to supply Spain ultimately led to thoughts of independence, not all too different from the American colonists mentality.