Unfortunately I could only have a small talk with this beautiful Aymara woman. She only spoke a few words of Spanish and my knowledge of Aymara is almost nil...
I decided to share an interesting fact about the Aymara culture:
"For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind. For most of us, the idea of having the future ahead of us and the past behind is so intuitive that it wouldn't even occur to us that someone could see it differently. But in fact, those figures of speech result from our underlying concept of time. The Aymara show that ours isn't the only possible mindset.
Our society sees time like a road that we travel on. Behind us are the places we've been (the past) and ahead of us lie the places we've not yet arrived at (the future). In many ways, this view of time emphasizes the future. We're generally looking ahead to the future, trying to anticipate what it may have in store. We can turn our heads and look back on the past, but we can't retrace our steps, so it's generally considered wasteful to spend too much time looking back. Instead, we talk of “having direction” and “knowing where we're going in life,” and “looking forward” to newer and better experiences.
In a sense, the Aymara view is more literal and straightforward. It's based on the simple fact that you know where you've been, but you can't really know where you're going. So they imagine the past in front of them, where they can see it. Compared to traveling forward on the road of time, you might imagine an Aymara person standing still, while time rolls forward from behind her and unfolds before her eyes."
(source: http://sciencenetlinks.com/)
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