So the lecture yesterday was a little boring. It was more about the religious beliefs of the Mayans than about their culture, which sounds like it might be interesting but it really wasn´t. It was hard to understand because it was all in Spanish, which is becoming the story of my life here hahah. They had another student translate, but the speaker would forget that he had to stop talking to let the student translate so there would large gaps of time where I didn´t understand much. One thing I did find interesting was that the Mayans beleive that people were created out of different types of corn. Theres five different types of corn apparently and each different kind represents a different race and different aspects of the spirit and the body. The speaker also said that the predictions about the end of the world based on the Mayan calendar are inaccuarate and ignorant. He said people who aren´t Mayan try to take the calendar and understand it and they don´t really know what they´re talking about.
After taking notes in class today for what seemed like forever, my teacher and I just sat and talked for a while. We ended up talking about movies and I told her about netflix. She had never heard of it and she was reallly jealous haha. She also asked me how close I lived to a grocery store and I told her it was about a 10-15 minute drive and she seemed shocked. She thought that was so far away. They just walk everywhere here so there´s stores and places a lot closer to their houses.
I´ve been feeling a lot better the past few days and I also figured out how to get hot water in the shower, so its been pretty awesome :)
That's so weird to think of not having to drive places. Me and mom went to the public market yesterday to get flowers and veggies for the garden and she made me pull a wagon around and I felt really dumb. But then I realized other people had wagons, too. People there must pull carts around if they don't drive.
ReplyDeleteHahaha yeah she told me you guys were going to start a garden. I haven´t seen anyone with a cart haha. The market is open every day so they don´t have to buy everything they need all at once and a lot of them carry stuff around on their heads. You would´nt believe the things i´ve seen them carry on their heads, its ridiculous! I wish I took pictures haha.
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