Well...I hope you have not all forgotten about me
Anyways so time for another update and I feel like alot of stuff happened since I last wrote, but I can't remember it all off the top of my head. Time is going by super fast. But 2 sundays ago we put on a church service for a church fundraiser and they had this huge like church BBQ and there was a pool and a beautiful river that we walked down and we got to swim in it because it wasn't contaminated and we had fried fish with rice and refried beans and tortillas and there were no utensils and so you had to use the tortillas and scoop everthing up in a big handful. It was awesome. We have been working very hard on our puppet shows and bible skits and clown skits so when we leave for Belize next week (WA hoo!!) we can have a program for the places we go.
So more adventurous things...last week we had a work day and we did odd jobs around the compound because it was Holy Week for the Guatemalans and they had 4 days off. So we had to take over the cooking and maintenance. So me and Jasmine got to cut down a banana tree with Machetes. Much to the criticism we got about how bad we were at it. And yesterday we had the day off and so we went into town to get a few things and me and another girl, Alison, was late getting back to the vehicle so we had to take a microbus back. A microbus is like a miniature version of a minivan and they put benches in there and there was 25 people all crowded in this little bus- including 2 people hanging out the door.
It was different being down here for easter though. Guatemalans don't celebrate Easter really, they have Holy Week and its the week before Easter and like everything shuts down and they all go and hang out on the beach. And there are no church services on Easter Sunday! Well some do but mostly not. In Antigua, which is a big touristy towns, they have these big processions and they're like parades and they put car parts so its very heavy and the people where purple gowns to symbolize repentance and you have to pay and then you can help carry this float down the streets. And they have a Jesus figure and a Mary figure on them. It's the Catholic church that puts them on. And then people make these beautiful carpets out on the streets made out of sawdust and they are so colourful and beautiful with like birds and flowers on them all made out of sawdustand it takes them hours to make. And then the procession walks right through them and destroys them. So we got to go see that last week.
Well, I have a huge spanish test tomorrow and so I need to go study. But I hope you guys all had great easter weekends and some time off! Don't hesitate to write back and let me know how things are going for you!
Dios le bendiga!
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