This past weekend was very busy but enjoyable. On Saturday a group of volunteers from Xela traveled to a small Mayan village about an hour from here to build stoves. The stoves provide the families in the village with a means of ventilated cooking and saves firewood and therefore money. We started the first step of stove building which basically involves cement and cinder blocks, the pic is me with the finished masterpiece. After building, we took a group of 40 people from the village to a bathhouse/swimming pool. Apparently, some Guatemalans travel to these places weekly or so to wash the entire family, as they don't have access to water in their villages. We were certainly the only gringos there and it was an interesting experience. The hot water was great in a counry of warm showers and a morning of dirt, cement and hard work.
It was also my first experience using a bano that is a toilet but doesn't flush. You have to put water down the toilet with bucket, which I didn't understand until a Mayan woman demonstrated this to me. Banos here are always an adventure!
On Sunday a group of us from school took a hike to Laguana de Chicabal, a crater lake near Xela. The hike was beautiful but a bit strange as we hiked along a rode and through a village for an hour prior to the entrance of the park. Meanwhile, other groups were driving by in pick up trucks, so we are pretty sure our tourg roup just dropped us off at the bottom of the hill because the vans couldn't make it up. Another adventure!
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