Its our third day at our second homestay, in San Andres. We apologize for the lack of blogs thus far. We thourghly enjoiyed ourselves in Poptuon and were fortunate enough to have participated in the local Guatemalan Independence Day festivities. These festivities included, sack races, music, a compatition with horses and a scramble up a 30 foot tall, lard covered log. Alex and Robert were champs and participated in the human ladder to get to the top of the lard pole. Although Alex got pantsed infront of everybody and a little aftermath of sore backs, it remains a once in a life time experience. We explored the city of Poptun with a fun scavanger hunt, put togeather by Celia and did our first service project at La Escuela. Our service project included filling a large planter box with soil and putting up the fence. We spent alot of time at the school aside from our service project. There, we were greeted with lots of smiles and many invitations to play soccer and basketball. The children were very friendly and we became immediate friends with many of them.
We were spoiled with the wonderful meals made for us and ate togeather as a group. Most of the meat we ate was once crusing around in our backyards, including tamales made with a cerro, pig, from Heidis house. With a mixture of excitement and a little sadness we moved on in our adventure, never to forget the family and freinds we made in Poptun.
We took an hour long bus ride form poptun, which gave Andy the first hand experience of what a sardine in a can may feel like. To our ammusment he was accompanied by a man who basically sat on his lap the whole way, yelling for more passangers out the window. We were thankful to arrive in Florez where we took a great boat ride across the lake, Peten, and arrived where we now reside. Yesterday we had a great field day. Max, Andy and Heidi went to an organic farm , where they gathered fruit, habeneros and saw the national tree of Guatemela, a Ceida. Karen, Celia, Robert, Kaise, Alex and Dan went to an animal rehibilitation where they saw the beautiful Occelots and experienced how crazy Spider Monkeys can be,
Big Love from The Cam Crew!
– Heid, Robert and Max!
