tram had her class switched to the morning today, so i slept in, took a leisurely shower, and sat down to a quiet traditional jueves santos breakfast of sweetened garbanzo beans, egg bread, and hot chocolate.

i walked to school to study and to use the internet fro the first time since i arrived in guatemala.  not suprisingly, my email box was overflowing (i don´t want to see what´s happening to my bloglines).  suprisingly, i had no internet withdrawal symptoms.  i´m just that busy.

at about 2, i sat down to lunch at the escuela.  the teachers had made an avocado salad, grilled meats, veggies, tortillas, and other goodies for us.   later, gaby (mi maestra), tammy, her maestra, and i walked to the parque benito juarez to watch the procession.  i love how tammy calls cotton candy ¨candy floss¨.  after the procession, we wandered the parque and tammy made friends with a couple girls from chi chi who giggled at every word she said.

afterwards, tammy and i met tram to attend a concert that our host family´s kids were performing in for holy week.  they sang, we took pictures.  it was cute. all i remember was the chorus, ¨jesus christe, yo estoy a qui!¨

at home, dinner was chow mein made from scratch by our abuela.  it was a welcome change to the frijoles.  tram and i broke out our cameras, took some pictures, and then sat down to look at their family photos.

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