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Daniel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:39:10 +0000

Nice writing! Thanks to your blog I’m looking forward to visit Peru again. After all I was born there!

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Natalia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:24:25 +0000

Hello Barb!
You made me remember the time when I was at school. I really enjoyed covering my books with Vinifan. Also, I was very proud that they were shiny and very flat that my friends couldn´t notice that I used Vinifan. Some years ago I gave my school books to poor children and I was glad that Vinifan had protected them, so they were still in good conditions to be use again .

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Barb — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:55:23 +0000

I am getting used to that Vinifan smell, after being here for two years.

Vinifan may be one of the things that Peruvian expats miss most about their country, besides ceviche and the garua.

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nancy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:06:58 +0000

The “toxic smelling Vinifan?”.. that is the best smell ever, not proving to be toxic, and fun for peruvian people, I loved to cover my notebooks. So you know live in Peru you better get use to it. Same for me, to live here in Us without Vinifan.

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Eleonn — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:43:12 +0000

…lock him in a room?? Ha. I had a science teacher who had a little coil that produces some few volts and he use it to teach about electricity. Somewhere in time he discover that he could used it for punishing bad boys/girls too. I have to add that I wasnt precisely an angel at school .

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Barb — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:52:43 +0000

So you too! It appears to be a common affliction with Carmelitas graduates.

This is a bit off subject — but El Fotografo and his cousins went to Carmelitas when the nuns still practiced corporal punishment. Whenever they get together for Sunday almuerzos, one cousin or the other makes a reference to some strange or painful thing a nun did to him, like lock him in a room for an hour or (get this) make him sit under the nun’s desk while she taught the class.

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Glory — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:12:44 +0000

I also went to carmelitas, I can’t wear anything brown without being reminded of that dowdy, huge, scratchy uniform.

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Barb — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:49:34 +0000

Welcome to Lima, Mali! I think learning how to Vinifan is a rite of passage for us expats. Maybe it’s on the citizenship test to become a Peruvian, along with singing all verses of the never-ending national anthem.

How do your boys like Carmelitas? Were they used to wearing a uniform before they started school in Peru?

To this day, El Fotografo (who attended Carmelitas as a child) cannot stand to wear anything brown due to his associating the color with his old school uniform.

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Mali — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:34:24 +0000

Just found your blog & love it! Lord of the Vinifan really struck a chord…we just moved to Lima last July, Miraflores in October and put the boys in Carmelitas just this month. Of course, I had no earthly idea what vinifan was or how important it was! Got a huge kick out of the article, thanks for sharing!

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Barb — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:01:00 +0000

Thanks for dropping by, Maireid (all the way from Australia!). And thanks for the nice comments about my story.

Your “immersion” concert theme is inspiring — weaving songs and stories from Irish, American and Australian heritages. Cultural nomadism is the story of the earth’s people, no?