Sunday, August 11, 2013

Today when we woke up we went to the Women's cooperative where these women would sew fantastic things that would take a year to make. When we got there we had to walk some ways before we finally got to there meeting place. It was not what I expected. It was a very small room with tapestries hanging everywhere you looked. Then the lit 3 circular candles in the middle of a bunch of flower petals. They told us a story of how they got started. And they started out with 35 women and ended up with ten in the end. Most of them left because their husbands wouldn't let them come, others left cause the stuff they make and sell they give the money to a school and some of the women wanted the money for themselves. After the story they showed us a traditional dance. And after that they showed us how to weave.  After that we had some time to buy stuff there was so much stuff I ended up with a ton of cool stuff. After that we got to make corn tortillas which weren't my favorite but a cool experienceThen they made Pepian which was rice, chicken and super good sauce.Then it was time to leave. When we got back we started working on our lesson plans for the school tomorrow I will work with 5th and 2nd grade tomorrow.Then we went to Antigua. We walked some ways and ate nachos and I had the best hot chocolate ever. After that some of us went to mass which was cool but super huge so they had TV with the preacher on them. And then we went home. I can't wait for tomorrow!




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