That, is a picture of my breakfast. Cook plantain with choco krispies on top. Kinda weird combination, but surprisingly good. Today I worked at El Proyecto, getting things ready for when the big group comes. Mostly just cutting up paper for teh kids to decorate their picture frames with and cutting the frames out of hard cardboard like material. I got to spend some time with Marissa, the other volunteer in education from AZ, and invited her to come with me and the other students from my house to the 'Bagel Barn' tonight to watch Shirlock Holmes. Hopefully it's a halfway decent movie.
After that, I had school and today went on the 'extra activity'. We went to the cervaceria, or beer factory. Guatemala is a country with about 11 million people, and as such has only one major beer company. Gallo (rooster), is it and it is HUGE! They also produce all of the pure water for the country in addition to all the crush soda products. We got a tour around the brewery (unfortunately in English, blah!), and then a free beer each. I"m...not a big fan of beer, so I had their equivalent of Smirnoff Ice, a 'STATS'. It was okay, but not good enough to finish. The company employs 500 people, (who are uninionized) and is apparently one of the best paying jobs anyone can have in the country. They also do a lot whenever natural disaster strikes because they're the only really big, organized company.
^view from my front door on my way to the internet cafe :)
Actually Betsey, I can see where that breakfast would be good - kind of like a banana split without the ice cream. I will look for Gallo beer the next time I'm at the liquor store ;)(The one that has a lot of imports). I still have a bottle of beer from Aldi call "Monterrey" that says it's from Guatemala...hmmm...
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Melanie and I ran into a colleague tonight who lived in Guatemala for two years with a peace corps type of group. (She's our ELL teacher) She spent time in Antigua and stressed to Melanie the importance of being safe! She was also familiar with Common Hope and very interested in hearing all about your trip so far.
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