One Week
One week ago at 4 a.m. I started my trip to Guatemala. In some ways it seems like yesterday, in some ways it seems like a lifetime. Spanish is coming easier and easier. I feel like I´m a sponge bathing in spanish. Every moment I soak up something new.
The last few days have been really good. I took a field trip with my spanish school to another village where there´s a women´s cooperative. That was really interesting. I also took a salsa dance class- that was interesting too but in a different way. I´m not sure whether I need more practice or if salsa just isn´t my thing. Once I adopted the "just keep spinning" philosphy things did start to go better. I realized that if you just keep spinning something will eventually stop me- either your dance partner, a window or a table =) Last night we had a big potluck dinner at my spanish school. That was really fun. We started cooking at 5 p.m. and weren´t finished with the night until 10 p.m. My friend and I made pasta. Sounds simple enough, which it was, but we had out own sauce with all these fresh vegetables from the market. It was yummy! This weekend I am signed up for a trip to climb the highest mountain in Cental America. It´s a 13,000 Ft. volcanoe. I´m really looking foward to getting out camping, hiking and breathing fresh air. I´m sure I´ll have some spectacular photos to post next week after that adventure.
So I thought today I would describe the kitchen in the house where I live. There are two things I find very intriging about it. First, the family does not use their oven. Or atleast in the way we would think to use an oven. Instead they keep their mugs in it like it´s a cupboard. Second, their kitchen is fairly small but their kitchen table is huge. This means that practically the whole food prep area is filled up with table. To get to the sink everyone at the table has to scootch in. Somehow I find this amusing. Speaking of kitchens though, the food has been really really good. Basic but good. Lots of black beans, rice, tortillas, eggs and fresh vegtables. What more could you want!
So the most random store I´ve found so far here- and there are a lot of them- is the store that sells little plastic toys made in Taiwan. Globalization in action!Plastic I´ve realized is a very big thing here. It´s logical because plastic is cheap but there certainly does seem to be an awful lot of it.
All right, well I´m going to close this entry and post some photos. Afterall photos say a thousand words. Have a good weekend.
Love you,
Amy
The last few days have been really good. I took a field trip with my spanish school to another village where there´s a women´s cooperative. That was really interesting. I also took a salsa dance class- that was interesting too but in a different way. I´m not sure whether I need more practice or if salsa just isn´t my thing. Once I adopted the "just keep spinning" philosphy things did start to go better. I realized that if you just keep spinning something will eventually stop me- either your dance partner, a window or a table =) Last night we had a big potluck dinner at my spanish school. That was really fun. We started cooking at 5 p.m. and weren´t finished with the night until 10 p.m. My friend and I made pasta. Sounds simple enough, which it was, but we had out own sauce with all these fresh vegetables from the market. It was yummy! This weekend I am signed up for a trip to climb the highest mountain in Cental America. It´s a 13,000 Ft. volcanoe. I´m really looking foward to getting out camping, hiking and breathing fresh air. I´m sure I´ll have some spectacular photos to post next week after that adventure.
So I thought today I would describe the kitchen in the house where I live. There are two things I find very intriging about it. First, the family does not use their oven. Or atleast in the way we would think to use an oven. Instead they keep their mugs in it like it´s a cupboard. Second, their kitchen is fairly small but their kitchen table is huge. This means that practically the whole food prep area is filled up with table. To get to the sink everyone at the table has to scootch in. Somehow I find this amusing. Speaking of kitchens though, the food has been really really good. Basic but good. Lots of black beans, rice, tortillas, eggs and fresh vegtables. What more could you want!
So the most random store I´ve found so far here- and there are a lot of them- is the store that sells little plastic toys made in Taiwan. Globalization in action!Plastic I´ve realized is a very big thing here. It´s logical because plastic is cheap but there certainly does seem to be an awful lot of it.
All right, well I´m going to close this entry and post some photos. Afterall photos say a thousand words. Have a good weekend.
Love you,
Amy
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