Dear Ellen,

I loved your article in the Magazine this month and agree completely. Peru is like Europe.
When we lived in Miami, making new friends was hard unless they were from work, and almost always the socializing was outside the home.

I remember once, when we still lived in Miami, and my husband´s parents were coming to visit us from Lima. The day before their arrival, the daughter and mother of a friend of Carlos from Peru arrived and stayed in our apartment for the night. I had everything set up for his parents, no extra sets of sheets for another group of guests and couldn´t believe that Carlos had said “those people” could stay and even more that “those people” had the nerve to even ask. Luckily they could only stay one night because of the arrival the next day of the parents but it was mass confusion to me.

I´ve had many other experiences like that and I guess due to growing up in the U.S., couldn´t understand having people, who were not even good friends, stay with you and having to spend time with them, etc.

I didn´t realize until reading your article that we are the “unusual” hosts. Thanks.

Laura Andia

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