The Four in Lima : ¡Sube al Bus!

Forget the plans that I told you I had yesterday. This is what happens in Peru... plans change. This time for the better, in fact, the new plans turned into awesomeness.

When John Mark picked us up for jam session we realized that there was only going to be one Peruvian with us. So Kyle and John Mark, being the adventure seekers that they are, decided to check off something on their list of crazy things to do: be on Peruvian TV. The lucky show that was graced by the presence of JM, Kyle, Taylor, Gaby, and me - El Último Pasajero (The Last Passenger), a game show where high schools compete to win a free end-of-the-year-trip.

We basically just walked into the studio and the workers with their fancy headsets asked if we were there to be part of the show. We decided that we were so they gave us shirts to wear and a free Sprite, that we were supposed to hide until they told us. The theme song of the show is Sube al Bus (Get on the Bus) since the schools are competing for a trip. At the end each team gets to pick a key to try to start their bus and win.

Gaby with her shirt. Go azul!

So we joined with a school from Miraflores to cheer for their team of students. The audience was completely students from three different schools and they were all going crazy. Right away three members of each team had to play a game of slip-n-slide mixed with darts, where they slid from one end of a giant soap-covered target to see how far they could get. Blue won that challenge yay!

So that's what the studio of a TV show looks like!

Then there was a commercial time where we all took out our hidden Sprite and drank it. The slogan for Sprite right now in Peru is La Verdad Refresca (The True Soft Drink). So the team leaders competed in a true/false game of high school knowledge trivia and the red team won. Later there was a challenge where two girls got haircuts to see who would cut the most grams of hair off. It was intense and one girl even cried!

After the last commercial break there was another trivia game. Each team member who got a question right got to get on the bus. In the end, the green team's bus started and they won the trip. It was an exciting hour and a half for all of us gringos... a definitely Peruvian experience!