So on Wednesday I went on a field trip through the school.  It was to a neighboring pueblo named San Mateo.  We were visiting a very small elementry school that supported itself by demostrating how to make tortillas and other typical Guatemalan food to tourists. 

We met in the park near my house a little before 8:00 to wait for our ride.  We were going to take a camionete (bus), but in typical Guatemalan fashion, we ended up taking a peekop (pickup)

Everybody in (all 10 of you... seriously)

 The ride was great and ended up taking about a half an hour or so.  We ended up doing pretty well.  In all we had 10 people.  Luckily, the truck was an extended cab, so we were able to fit quite a few people inside.   We weren´t so lucky on the way back and had to cram 12 people (including 2 local farmers).

When we got there we went on a hike around the town.  The landscape was beautiful.

San Mateo

Local construction

Wind

Carrying water. This is a daily climb of probably .5 miles (each way)

I quickly came to the conclusion that the niña with the Spongebob Squarepants backpack has spanish that is far superior (in comparison to my own)

 After hiking it was time to eat…

Grinding the corn for the tortillas

Rolling the dough

Yes

Pipian, pollo, arroz, y tortilla