After a breakfast of pancakes and eggs we went to the market. We went on a scavenger hunt: the goal was t
o find ingredients for a traditional Mayan dish that we would eat for lunch. We had some trouble locating the market, so we were followed for the entire time under the watchful eyes of Senora Mouser and Ms. Thomas. We had a very hard time finding the cebolla, and had to buy some from 3 different vendors. The lady who sold us the zapote laughed at us because we couldn't pronounce the words. She was not the only one who found us funny. We bought a lunch box-sized pinata and realized this was not going to work, so Katherine picked out a indestructible star, which she carried all the way back to the hotel, drawing a few stares. Then we walked around the square and had some very delicious ice cream. A man in the street told us "It's good change president." We returned to Ixil and walked to the church while the teachers hid the Easter eggs, one of which is still missing. After finding almost all the eggs, we made tortillas. Courtney made a heart shaped tortil
la, and Sydney and Caroline went out into the garden to find the acorn-like achiote. We used the dye from the achiote to make henna- like temporary tattoos. Katherine drew an octopus man on Alex's arm and Courtney drew a Maya mystery on Katherine's left leg. Little Peregrina drew a heart on Emily's shoulder. After painting, there was an intense round of Uno, where Alex wowed the crowd with c
ard tricks. The bracelet people (Caroline, Sydney, Emily, Tita, and Claudia) continued to weave throughout the day. We stopped for a snack break after all our hard work at 4:40 and enjoyed the homemade tortillas and zikilpak made from our purchases at the market. After lunch, we moved on to oooblekkk (corn starch and water) that Caroline had engineered, and ended our second day in Ixil with the pinata. We couldn't break the pinata, but Courtney managed to break the stick in half. Then Simon, Cindy's son, became Spiderman and stabbed the pinata with half of the stick. The kids scrambled to get all the toys from the pinata. ¡Adios!
o find ingredients for a traditional Mayan dish that we would eat for lunch. We had some trouble locating the market, so we were followed for the entire time under the watchful eyes of Senora Mouser and Ms. Thomas. We had a very hard time finding the cebolla, and had to buy some from 3 different vendors. The lady who sold us the zapote laughed at us because we couldn't pronounce the words. She was not the only one who found us funny. We bought a lunch box-sized pinata and realized this was not going to work, so Katherine picked out a indestructible star, which she carried all the way back to the hotel, drawing a few stares. Then we walked around the square and had some very delicious ice cream. A man in the street told us "It's good change president." We returned to Ixil and walked to the church while the teachers hid the Easter eggs, one of which is still missing. After finding almost all the eggs, we made tortillas. Courtney made a heart shaped tortil
la, and Sydney and Caroline went out into the garden to find the acorn-like achiote. We used the dye from the achiote to make henna- like temporary tattoos. Katherine drew an octopus man on Alex's arm and Courtney drew a Maya mystery on Katherine's left leg. Little Peregrina drew a heart on Emily's shoulder. After painting, there was an intense round of Uno, where Alex wowed the crowd with c
ard tricks. The bracelet people (Caroline, Sydney, Emily, Tita, and Claudia) continued to weave throughout the day. We stopped for a snack break after all our hard work at 4:40 and enjoyed the homemade tortillas and zikilpak made from our purchases at the market. After lunch, we moved on to oooblekkk (corn starch and water) that Caroline had engineered, and ended our second day in Ixil with the pinata. We couldn't break the pinata, but Courtney managed to break the stick in half. Then Simon, Cindy's son, became Spiderman and stabbed the pinata with half of the stick. The kids scrambled to get all the toys from the pinata. ¡Adios!
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