Interesting Peruvian Activities!

I have several updates to make, and I am not certin where I should begin with them, so I thought I would go over some of the things that I have gotten to do that have everything to do with cultural exchange. Basically all the stuff that's totally normal in Peru but seems completly bizaare to Americans because we are... American!
Naturally part of these have to do with food! What I have gotten to try:
-Anticucho= cows heart
they prepare it sort of barbecue style (but not with bbq sauce or any of that) and i have only ever seen it served in thinner circular-ish slices skewerd onto a wooden stake. These are very common, you can find them all over the place, and they can be prepared on outside carts and any level of restaurant- and they are! And they are prepared everywhere because they are delicious! They are not too chewey and if they aren't over salted, are just really really good!
-Pancita=linning of cow stomach
I only had this once, not as common, definitly not as good. It's really really chewey to the point of being hard to eat and has an uncomfortable texture, with no real redeaming flavor to be worth eating (in my opinion obviously!)
-Cuyi=Guinea Pig
I know that those who have pets will not be happy about this commentary, so you may want to look away now! ...It taste kinda like fried chicken. hahaha. It sounds so cliche, but it's sort of true. It was good! Not as tough or dry as chicken, infact it was a little too oily, but in general it was tasty! (sorry my vegetarian and pet owning friends <3 )
The other things include:
-Seeing a Marinera
Marinera is the typical northern peruvian dance which is really cool! I got to see a full out version with a woman dancing barefoot with a man on horse back as her partner. What makes it really cool is that the horse dosn't just trot around, it really seems to dance with the music and the woman! I have some videos, I will post them if I can figure out how...
-Bull Fight
I got to see a bull fight aswell! It wasn't really a fight, so don't worry! There was no sword play or harm done to the bulls. It was really interesting though, they had four bull fighters and each one his own bull. But inbetween each little show of them running around each other, there was something of interest. So there was the Marinera, there was a walk around of a bunch of young dancers, and most interesting I thought was the use of clowns. Inbetween the real bull fighters they had these two clowns come out with a scrawny little baby bull and they just do a bunch of stupid stuff, running around having the baby bull hit them and everything for laughs. It's a really an interesting atmosphere, when I got to go it was in a sort of amipheater with bleachers and they were all filled. Right behind us was the band, and they play play the time away. People are making noise and yammering and everytime the bull fighter swipes away his clothe coaxing the bull to run through everyone yells OLE! It's pretty fun. Also at events like these everyone has a reason to be drinking, so everyone is drinking, all the time. So down around the edge there is also all the people who are sitting on the brink trying to swat at the bulls as they run around inside, because... I don't know why... Or trying to spray beer onto the animal to get a reaction. It's really funny when the bull jumps over the fence out of the caral and into the samller cirumfrance area they have cleared for that. The only thing is that area generally has quite a number of people in it. On the last bull, which was the most lively, it jumped over several times and ran around the circumfrance. It's funny because it sends up this general reaction from the crowd, as they watch the people down there scramble to get out of the way but also just laugh at the situation. It was pretty comical looking when the bull jumped out the first time and there was an entire band standing in the between area of the circumfrence! It was just like a cartoon, all these (I dunno) 24 peice set of men all dressed in the same official band suit start jumping out of the way holding their shiney instruments, and three seconds later charges by a bull!
-Cock Fight
I hadn't really decided if I wanted to see this or not because the sol purpose of the activity is to have two roosters fight until one kills the other. We, being my host parents and my host neice (who is six years old) just walked over and sat down. I was sitting there thinking, is this really just gonna happen like this, ubber casually, does my host family not see my general shock? Nope. None of that, it was just something normal for everyone. We sat down and there was every type of person there- really ealthy gamblers there to bet and win or loose their money, stretching down to very poor kids, because it's a free show. There are vendors filtering through: selling cigarrets, beer, soda, lollipops, and sandwiches. Everyone's just sittin around while the two birds were marked and each had these huge curved blades tied to the backs of one of their legs. And then they just let them loose each behind its own line and then it begins. It's surprising how quickly and casually it all happens.
-Dance of the scicorss
This is a traditional dance of the Incas where the dancers are wearing traditional clothes and are dancing with scicorss. They dance and jump about cutting the air and traditionally, the rain. It's really interesting to see and an incredible age range of who can perform and how many moves they can perform while keeping to the tradition!