Babies, and Musical Garbage Trucks #2

Heads Will Roll
In Arequipa, we saw these bags full of bread shaped like babies, with heads and all! So strange. We asked our professors at the language school why there were babies in bags. The answer: 9 months after the festivals throughout the country (just before Lent, celebrating the Virgin Mary, mind you), lots of babies are born. Coincidence? I think not. And neither do the bakers, who make the Guaguas. Traditionally, I think the bread is sold in November, the month all the festival babies are born. Due to my love of women who carry their babies on their backs, I had to have some. So sweet, only 2 soles, and a good snack for our trip to Ilo. I could have gotten a bigger loaf with one, non-alien shaped baby head, but the bag of 6 scary babies was cheaper. No photo of the whole loaves, I got too hungry, so here are the heads.



The garbage truck phenomenon isn´t limited to Arequipa.
(Thank goodness.)
Our host mom went running from the breakfast table the first morning we were in Ilo when she heard the music. It´s like the ice cream truck! Which made me realize it´s probably not as awesome for the workers as it is for me as a spectator...I don´t know how I´d survive a job that made me listen to this song hours on end while collecting people´s garbage.

-Sara