jueves, 19 de enero de 2012

Interesting Zapote

We took an hour and a half drive to the extreme remote area of Zapote this morning and met 120 boys and girls . The drive there was...interesting.  You have to cross 4 rivers (or the same river 4 different times) to get there.  Several men worked on building a concrete block wall while the ladies and a couple men handed out pencils to the kids (with inscription of Jesus Loves You) and pencil sharpeners.  Our team does plan on getting photos out for people to view, sorry we haven't been able to get many pictures for people to view (except via Faceboook).  We had a nice lunch with all the kids.  Wes, Amberly, Jim, & Shari went on a walk through the village.  We saw a pig bathing in the stream of sewage, lots of chicken, children bathing, a garbage dump next to a beautiful river, all kinds of beautiful tropical plants that I've only seen at Horticulture events (the plants grow like grass here).  We left Zapote and traveled to Antigua.  Several from our group did more shopping and a few of us parked in a park and people watched.  We were preyed upon by vendors every two seconds df during our relaxing time : )  Some of us went into one of the oldest Catholic churches in Antigua (1743 to date). It was beautiful but it was excessively ornate.  We had dinner at MonoLoco (Crazy Monkey), very tasty and again beatiful and interesting.  Guatemala people are so beautiful and hard working.

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