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Chapter 2: The Parade & and Fire at night!

Wednesday 15th

We woke up and went to the plaza to buy some masks for our play based on paucartambo. Sandri, Rodrigo and I, we went to buy out breakfast and we bought this yogurt that apparently was ok but really it was like CHEESE! Horrible man, anyway, The big deal begun today with the Entrada. This is the first parade of the festival where all the comparzas approach the church were the virgin is and present themselves to her. However, for this we had to seat on the streets in order to separate our seats. There I found my BPF (best paucartambo friend) Nayeli and I thought her how to draw. The first dance groups that open the festival are always the Maqtas. They don’t have a dance but their job is to open up the space for the other comparzas to dance. They use a whip and Andean clothes. They are one of the few comparsas that can touch and socialize with the audience. After the Maqtas the other comparsas dance in any order and they come with the demanda and the cargo of the comparsas. It was amazing that every comparsa has a different demanda, each costumized according to the danza or to the costume of it. This day was also the day where the famous phrase of CHUNCHOS SU MADRE! Was created, why ? because our dear Sandra is afraid of horse and, today the Chunchos enter to the entrada in horse (as well as the majeños). The "Maq'tas" and the "Q'ollas" are the two dances that whip each other as a punishment or baptism ritual, this is called the "Yawar Unu".

(to be completed)