I slept much better last night. I didn’t notice the roosters so much because I was so sleepy but I realized that the reason I heard a dog barking all night long was because my host family keeps their puppy outside in an area kind of like an enclosed patio and my room is right next to the patio. The puppy barks a lot during the night, but she’s so cute! It makes me miss Casey less :)
Today during my lesson a bunch of the teachers took their students to the cemetery. In Guatemala, it’s not common for people to be buried in the ground so most of the graves are above ground in mausoleums. They are very colorful and there are lots of interesting designs and statues. The families of the people buried in the cemetery have to pay a small fee every year to keep the body there and if they don’t pay, they remove the body! While we walked around, we stopped at a few different graves and heard stories and legends about the people buried there. It was pretty interesting, not at all what I was expecting when my teacher asked me if I wanted to go to the cemetery. Later today, we’re all going to una fabrica de chocolate (chocolate factory). I’m pretty excited about it because they’re going to show us how they make the chocolate and then we can taste it and buy some. Que delicioso!
Here's a picture from the cafe I went to yesterday. I tried to add more, but the internet isn't that great so it was taking too long. I'll try again later.
the picture looks so cool, not at all like the parts of Guatemala I've seen. and that's so weird that they would remove the body! I wouldn't want that job haha.
ReplyDeleteYeah well, I guess it's pretty rare for that to happen because it's only like 100Q for like three years or something. Which is basically nothing. And yeah, Xela is a much bigger city than San Andres, a lot of it does look similar though.
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