So yesterday our morning activity was una caminata a Baul. So it was a hike. Kristian... who is our activity director for most activities... said that we had two options... walk the whole way or take a bus. We decided to walk the whole way! After the 15 min walk to the school, then we walked about 1.5 hours to the top of Baul from the school. It was interesting to walk through other parts of the city and then walk up one of the mountain hillish things that surounds the city. It had really good views of the whole city.
At the top are concrete slides. They are hard to describe but they are really big and built into the side of the hill. The best way to do it is to slide down on flattened plastic bottles! It was really fun and I have some video of it. So after that we walked back down and by mid day I had walked a good 3.5 hours straight. It was good excercise!... but the sun made me really tired later in the day.
After class we also attended with our teachers a traditional folk dance show. It was free to the city and included both traditional guatemalan and columnian dance. Kristian dances with the group from Guatemala so we were all excited to see that. But the whole program went way later than we thought and didn´t end until about 10PM! So when we got back home we ate some heated up soup and then ritz crackers and peanut butter. It was interesting that my host mom didn´t really now for sure what it was. Just a difference in experiences... its all I ever eat at college!
So that was my long day yesterday.
Today I was excited because my host mom made me a plate for breakfast while Luis was sitting at the table doing his homework. Because he is almost always late... he claims its Jewish Standard Time!... I gave him my plate to start on and I would take the next. When she came back with the next one she was confused. Appartently she was going to give me less food that Luis. So we had to add some from my plate to his. But anyway the reason I was so excited is because I can almost never finsish the food she gives me. It is WONDERFUL food! But its always such a large helping. So this morning showed that she has noticed that I really don´t need so much!
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