Muchas Actividades

So last night I asked my host mom if she needed help with dinner and she had me make guacamole. I was so excited to eat it because I love guacamole and I was thinking we'd eat it with tortillas or tortilla chips but then she spread it on tortillas, put a hot dog on top, then tomatoes, onions, ketchup, and mayonnaise! I was thinking that there was no way that it was going to taste good. But surprisingly, it did! And today I finally had something other than scrambled eggs for breakfast! I never enjoyed a pancake so much hahah :)

The chocolate factory was pretty cool. They put sooo much sugar in with the cocoa beans though! It was like 3 parts sugar and one part chocolate. It's different than like hershey's chocolate though because they don't make it to eat. They make bars of it and then they'll put in it hot water or milk to make hot chocolate. Its more common for them to drink it then to eat it, so I was a little disappointed that I couldn't just buy a regular bar of chocolate. But then afterwards, one of the other students told us about a chocolateria (chocolate store) near the school so a bunch of us went there. I bought a chocolate covered mango and it was super good.

Yesterday we went to Fuentes Georginas which are the hot springs in a town that's next to Xela. The water is naturally heated because it passes by volcanoes. There were three different pools and the first one was so hot that nobody could even get in it! The other two were just like really big hot tubs. It's a lot colder there because of the altitude so it feels really nice to be in the hot water. It was so foggy there though so I couldn't see the view which sucks cause I'm sure it would've been amazing since we were so high up.

Tomorrow during my class, my teacher is going to take me to a really big market that's here every Friday. Every Friday night at the school, all of the students come for dinner and everyone is supposed to cook something or bring something to eat. Hopefully I'll find something there to bring! She said there's usually lots of animals at this market, like cows, turkeys, ducks, etc. It should be pretty interesting!