In the morning, Jon the nice student and cook, gets in the kitchen and starts getting breakfast together. Judy the dialysis nurse who is used to rising while it is dark, gets up and makes the coffee from the beans that are grown here. The breakfast fare is placed covered on a counter, and the rest of the team comes in a helps themselves to it when they are ready.
Today twelve of us - me not included - are leaving at 7:30 to go horseback riding up a volcano. Our leader Don is truly an adventurer, and last night we were all in stitches as he described the upcoming day. It was one of those laugh till you hurt times!
We have also laughed a lot about the banos. The various experiences would require lengthy descriptions. As I was boarding the bus to come here, I asked Kim who had come before, "Where do we go to the bathroom during the day?" She whispered, "Just keep toilet paper in your pocket." That falls under the best advice category! If the local homes have designated places to do their business, it is in a tiny cement or cornstalk three-sided separate building in the back of their property, that has a very low opening to nowhere and is quite smelly. However we are grateful to be in a place that has one!
There is no tv here, praise the Lord, but everyone has their devices, mostly iPhones, that keep us in touch with the rest of the world. We have been airdropping our pictures to each other, and we all have a lot of pictures. There are so many Guatemalan children, and they all seem to like to be in fotos. We have a printer here and have printed some to give to them. I brought only my macbook, and a couple of others in the group did the same.
Have I mentioned the roads? Of course. I have. Many we have been on are just hard packed dirt. Some are rock, tile or brick, very steep with sudden right angle turns. On the "interstate" that I have learned is ___, there seem to be no traffic laws. We have been safe but had some adventures on them all!
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