My first earthquake

A few days ago we had a tiny earthquake (temblor) here in Cusco. To be honest I didn’t believe it was an earthquake until I heard mention of it on the radio the next day.

Peru is prone to earthquakes. The last major earthquake in Cusco was in 1950, I found some great photos of the 1950 Cusco earthquake on Amazilia Alba’s blog.

One of my favorite lines of the Led Zeppelin song “Going to California”:

“The mountains and the canyons start to tremble and shake
The children of the sun begin to wake”

I use this song often when I teach ESL at ICPNA. I ask the students to figure out which part of the lyrics could be about Peru. The reference to earthquakes is obvious, and the Incas used to worship the sun. Typically my students do pick up on the idea that “children of the sun” could refer to Peruvians.

Of course, you can interpret most Led Zeppelin songs any way you like, that’s part of the beauty of it. On the ICPNA teacher’s blog I wrote about how I use the song in teaching.

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December 20, 2008 - Posted by wwelvaert | Life in Peru | 1950 Cusco earthquake, 1950 terremoto Cusco, Cusco, earthquake, ESL teacher, Life in Peru, Peru, temblor Cusco

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Hi
I’m sorry but my request isn’t about this blog I read on one of the other sights that you brought two dogs from the us I would like to do the same could give me dome information as to hw to do this ? WE live in northern Florida, thank you………….Bob

Comment by Bob Gerhardstein | December 22, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the visit Bob. I wrote a post about moving our dogs from the US to Peru here:

http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/dual-nationality-mutts/

In the comments I added some info about the specific requirements (scroll down to about the 5th comment or so).

Regards,
Ward

Comment by wwelvaert | December 22, 2008 | Reply