Hombre Shuar Jiru Kankarum

So for a little while it has only been my friend Drew and I besides the locals in the community arutam. We asked some of the locals and they told us that there was a new girl coming in the next day to start volunteering here. Since it has only been me and drew we decided it would be a good idea to play a little prank on this newcomer. After discussing for a little while we came up with the idea to dress completley in traditional Shuar clothing for when this girl showed up and pretend like it was completley normal. After discussing our plan with some of the locals they were all in on our scheme and we headed for our gran amigo jose´s house who is probably the most traditional shuar person there and is the most proud of his heritage...as for the others some of them are a little more modernized. Jose was more than down for our little joke and supplied us with all of his traditonal clothing which included robes, headbands, a band made from monkey bones, a shrunken sloth head tied to the belt, a spear, and facepaint. After spending the whole morning getting ready and having our faces painted by jose we were ready. The only problem was we had no idea what time this mystery girl was going to show up. So the entire day we worked and lounged with our spears and everything. we even went to the detail of going barefoot the whole day. The day begins to pass and still no girl, so we decide to hop on a bus to the nearest town, still in our fully traditonal shuar clothing with spears and faces painted.. it was pretty funny cuz on the bus was alot of authentic traditional indigenous people that didnt know us and they just see two gringos hop on the bus in full shuar wardobe. After buying some goodies we were waiting at the bus stop when a bunch of local kids approached us to ask u questions...we had some good laughs and took some photos and then before we left these kids wanted to give us a gift, so this little girl climbed all the way to the top of a tree which was probably about 50 feet high to grab us some fruit to take. After we arrive back we have dinner and finally this girl shows up...and here we are just sitting there acting completley solemn with our faces painted and spears and traditonal robes...she never aksed us any questions about it but you could tell she was totally weirded out..We told her things like we have been here for 9 months and the monkey bone necklace i had was a money i hunted etc etc. and it was pretty funny to see the looks on her face...we never told her that night but continued the joke and came down to work with our traditional clothing and spears again for the entity of the whole day again until finally we told her it was a joke.
as the week passed we convinced jose to take us into the jungle for a hike to a nearby river which was probably about 3 or 4 hours away. as we take off for our hike he explained to us that were gonna get there without a trail and by just trudging threw thick jungle...so as about 2 hours pass we are still walking and exhausted.. i looked over to jose to see something wrong in his face. we suddenly came to the dark realization that we have been walking in circles for the last hour and were completley lost in the middle of the jungle... armed only with a blowgun, machete, can of tuna and some oreos, we were pretty much fucked and we began to worry. we kept walking desparatley in the hopes that we would find a trail or something..we have completley ran out of water by this point and were starting to panick...to add insult to injury it started to rain down on us...after walking and walking we didnt know what to do so jose told us to wait nearby a creek while he went off to find a path.. as we wait by a creek another hour goes by and it is soon going to be dark and we are assuming that jose is lost trying to find his way back... finally jose appears threw the jungle with a smile on his face and explains to us that the trail was only 5 meters away from us and we headed back...he said that this was the first time in 8 years this has happened and is super embarrased...he agreed to make it up to me and me and him are going to go into the jungle to go hunting and camp out for the whole weekend in the jungle. well thats about it for that chapter thanks for reading.