Mi Chibola Y La Comida

Posted on 10. Dec, 2008 by Colin in peru

Chibola is Peruvian slang for a young girl. Emphasis being young. Comida is food.

I thought about Milagros all week. I had her over Friday night. She told her parents she’d sleep at a friend’s and stayed with me.

I didn’t see her Saturday or Sunday. Monday was a holiday and Milagros came over around noon. There was a block party outside. They were serving rocoto relleno and fried chicken plates with plenty of beer. Rocoto relleno (stuffed pepper) is the Arequipa signature dish: a spicy pepper stuffed with meat and cheese served with pastel de papa (potato cake).

Milagros and I shared a rocoto relleno plate. We finished before the others and ran back to the apartment. After showering together we went into my room and spent a few hours in bed. She gave me a long massage after the sex.

Milagros and I had planned to make arroz con pollo that evening. Arroz con pollo is one of my favorites from Peru. Arroz con pollo is rice flavored with cilantro (so much that the rice turns green) mixed with peas, carrots, onion, peppers, and chicken.

Mike diced the onion. He noted how Milagros was all over me in the kitchen. She is touchy-feely, clingy. She comes up behind me and wraps her arms around me, laying her head on my arm or shoulder. Always wanting kisses. When people aren’t around she’s always grabbing my package. At one point she called me “Papi.” It reminds me of our age difference. She’s twenty and I’ll be thirty in March.

Mike says 29 and 20 isn’t a big deal in Latin America. Peruvian Roy agreed. But her age shows sometimes. She laughs hysterically at things that aren’t funny and doesn’t laugh at my clever jokes that are obviously hilarious.

While she apparently learned sexual lessons from a couple guys, she doesn’t seem to have any relationship baggage. She’s never fallen in love. How would it possibly work? Also, how could I be taken seriously if I’m seen with this girl? I’m going to show up to things with a twenty year-old nursing student? Hi guys, this is my girlfriend.

But I often think about her. I got a semi-erection while writing this. She’s nasty in bed but sweet in person. This is a hard combo to pull off. I’ve had purely physical relationships before, but I don’t even like to kiss those girls. I cringe thinking about them. Milagros doesn’t have that effect. I can cuddle and kiss her all day.

Saturday morning I didn’t want her to leave when she did. To entice her to stay, I told her I’d translate the words to the American music we were listening to – one of my R&B CD’s. I told her the words in Spanish from songs like “Cupid” by 112, “Must Be Nice” by Lyfe Jennings, “Let Me Love You” by Mario, etc. Damien told me I was playing with this girl and getting her hopes up. At the time I just wanted to listen to one more disc with my skinny little honey cuddled up on me in bed.

I’d recently put Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita on my Christmas list (before meeting Milagros). Lolita is the story of a middle-aged man who falls for an adolescent girl. Was it a sign that I put this on my list? Or coincidence?

Something has come up to make me consider an exit strategy. I asked Milagros what her parents do. Her mom’s a secretary, no big deal. Her dad’s a police officer. What!! In the States, no big deal. But in Peru …

Consider. I have ravaged a twenty year-old. I turned it out, tossed it up, and put it on the wall. Now it’s sprung. And. Its. Father. Is. A. Peruvian. Cop. I may be paranoid, but for more info about Peruvian police, read my post titled Human Rights in Peru.
The arroz con pollo turned out shit.

“Cupid” by 112

“Must Be Nice” by Lyfe Jennings

“Let Me Love You” by Mario

Buy Peruvian Maca.

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