el tiempo

I`m getting into a schedule here now which I like. When someone here says ¨we start at 2pm` this could be mean 2:15, 2:30 or 2:45. This suits me since I am not know for punctuality but it´s also slightly confusing because you don´t exactly know what it means when someone names a specific time.

So, in the morning i go to my spanish class, then back to my host family for lunch. Most people in Coban do not pack a lunch, but go home for lunch every day. Bertilia is the mayan girl who is 18 and going to high school still, but works in the house all day long. I chided one of the high school boys yesterday staying at the house because instead of getting up to get more juice they just yell "Bertilia!". I saw her bedroom today and was a little shocked because it looks like Cinderella´s quarters. It is a small room off the kitchen with room only for a bed. It is connected to the kitchen so she sleeps away from all the other bedrooms.

in the afternoon, i go to an afterschool program for pobrecitos. they need a lot of things so i might try to write some letters to raise money when i get back to different non profits.

Snapped two photo of Alejandro and his little friend playing in the yard today: http://picasaweb.google.com/kuhnbaya/Guate

Will be posting more photos later in the same place.