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Lanchas

5/25/09

Keywords: transportation, cultural differences, Panajachel

Today 4 other students and I took the lancha across the lake from Santiago to Panajachel for the first time. It cost each of us 25Q, and because we got there before the boat filled up it took 40 minutes for us to actually leave. On the way back, a pilot approached us at the ( Read more... )

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This morning the different groups of students were sorted by homestay destination and quickly dispatched across the lake to meet their families. Mine was the very first group, it was interesting to note that the people running the lanchas are exclusively Mayan.

Santiago is gorgeous, and much bigger than I expected. And my family is fantastic so far ( Read more... )

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Saturday, May 22

~11AM- took a trip to ruins of Iximche (“corn tree” in Mayan). It’s amazing to me that there are enough similarities between Yucatec and Ch’olti that some of the words are the same as I learned last summer.

Rode in a series of program-segregated vans, social workers in white and anthropologists in gray. Surreal experiences included ( Read more... )

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Wednesday, May 20-Friday, May 21

Conflicting opinions in Guatemala City as to the severity/repercussions of political uneasiness; Summer said someone on her plane into GUA told her to treat the most recent events as an almost constant occurrence-according to him, it just so happens that international reporters actually chose to report about the ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! I wasn´t sure if i was going to blog about my experience here, but as I´ve written a ton of field notes and taken lots of pictures so far I figured I´d share them with you! My entries will start from the first Friday I was here (May 22) and will probably be updated by the week since i´m keeping a detailed log of everything I do for my ( Read more... )