How to Make a Pizza in Peru

Here are some instructions on how to make pizza in Peru, as experienced by me and my friend Katie at her house:

1. Tell the host family you are going to make pizza for them. Tell them to make some rice, just in case.
2. Go to the overcrowded supermercado to find ingredients. Make a fuss at how much a little mozarella cheese costs, and decide on which veggetables are safe to eat (without risk to diarrhea)
3. Go home and make dough.
4. Find out the oven doesn´t work, and that you have to use the very sketchy "portable" oven.
5. Carefully place/drop pizza in to portable oven without burning fingers on the side.
6. Realize that the family is hungry, especially the younger host brother, who has been waiting the whole week to eat the pizza.
7. Find out 45 minutes later that portable oven no longer is working.
8. Watch Host family serve themselves rice and potatoes becuase they are hungry, and need to eat something.
9. Tell Host Mom the problem and watch her carefully try to light the oven without burning herself.
10. Carefully take the pizza out of the portable oven to the now lit oven.
11. Find out an hour later, that the oven is only about 100 degrees and that the pizza is still not cooking.
12. Watch younger host brother pop into the kitchen, asking about the pizza only to have to tell him that it´s not cooked yet.
13. Being resourceful, decide to try to cook the pizza on the stove top with another pan on top.
14. Watch smoke come up from the pan.
15. Freak out and start laughing at the same time.
16. Take the pizza off the stove top, and decide that it´s "cooked" enough.
17. Serve the half-cooked/half-burnt pizza to the host family. Find out the host dad went to bed already.
18. Watch the host family pick at their food while also saying "how good it is" at the same time.
19. Force yourself to eat your piece of pizza, half becuase your host family did and the other becuase you slaved away 4 hours in the kitchen and want to show something for it.
20. Be thankful that the family made some rice.
21. Laugh...

Now some photos....

This photo was during our tour of Chacrasana, and no, that is not my hat.

My Host Family during Eric and Raphael´s 15th Birthday

Pablo, the Pied Piper of the Gringos

My Spanish Group in Lima

Eating the delicious "Aji de Gallina" dish

Like always, I miss you all dearly!