If you think that’s a lot, I don’t know what would you think about the present my sister and I gave to my dad for his birthday…

We [almost] wrapped the house with little notes full of phrases like “Happy birtday”, “You’re our hero”, “We love you” and so on… His birthday is on July and, the notes are still in every wall, window, shelf we stick them on… Maybe that’s to much for you…[ I think it was too much for my dad, too LOL]…

Not only school activities are like dad, from poems, to performances, gifts given away… one “dad of the classroom” who gets a present…

Once my school made something really nice… we all invited our parents for a ‘get together ‘[most of our parents know each other and are friends, like we go out together.. and so do them ]… Anyway, me had some food, talked, some parents talked about how they felt about their kids, some had sad stories, like the ones who took their grand pa’s because he was the ‘father figure’, our his dad has passed away… Some girls in the classroom said out loud, how proud they were about their fathers… and then… some fathers also shared a funny story [so tipical from us, peruvians ]…..

Every holyday is an excuse to get together, to get away, to share breakfast, lunch or dinner with your family… of course.. con ‘pollo a la brasa’ involved in most of them…

ps:I like your blog
ps2: I apologize if any mistake at writing… is the lack of practice…

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Like your husband, it never occured to me that there was any other (or better) way. Then I received a package from a Brazilian friend who bought me hankies (for real) in Sao Paulo. The package was so beautifully wrapped, with not a piece of tape in sight — it was kind of a revelation to me. Somehow the paper was folded so it was easier to open — you just pulled on a fold and it came undone, rather than having to rip the paper apart.

I think it’s a South American thing. A superior method, IMO, but I don’t have the skills. Consider yourself lucky.

Someone should write about this in Spanish for Peruvian audiences because it happens all the time here. At my son’s school, the kids do public performances to X-rated rap lyrics and the parents just sit there, grinning and clapping.

That line is a classic for a wedding song. LOL.

Peruvian red tape does give you a LONG migrane. No doubt about that. And yes, FD is a big deal here just as much as Mother’s Day and Christmas and all those major holidays.
As far as the Jona’s Bro’s song goes, it’s funny how sometimes they’ll play something in English that most people don’t understand. At a friend’s wedding, the bride and the groom danced to the unedited version of “You’re beautiful” by James Blunt… “she could see from my face that I was f*cking high….” I was, needless to say, in schock that the F word came up but almost no one noticed

Yes, I do think Peruvians make a bigger deal out of Father’s Day — or rather, should I say, they express their love differently. It seems that more and more FD in the US centers on buying things (seems like crass overstatement but I’ll stick by it) whereas in Peru there is this emphasis on putting on performances and, of course, eating a big almuerzo.

Yes, I too hope that globalization encourages countries to adopt different customs and add them to the mix. More not less. That was, after all, how the Incas conquered the neighboring tribes in Peru. They didn’t forbid the conquered people from worshipping their local gods; they added those gods/huacas to the Inca religious mix and everyone in the empire started celebrating those special days too.

Now that I live in the States I never thought that those kind of celebrations were different here than the way I grew up.

Oh well. I hope globalization makes us have more celebrations instead of less overtime

Nice article Barbara