What a day! We drove for 5 hours in a shuttle van to Coban, a city north of Guatemala City. We drove through amazing countryside. Lots of hills/small mountains. One area was quite dry with lots of cactus. As we got higher we saw pine trees mixed in with the palms, banana and plantains.
Corn crops are everywhere, but they are nothing like Manitoba fields. The fields are the size of a garden and are on the edge of cliffs with plants growing in between the rocks. Obviously everything is planted and harvested by hand - no machine could ever go where these crops are.
Food has been good - chicken, corn tortillas, tamale (corn paste wrapped and heated in corn husks), beans, salsa and rolled deep fried tortillas seem to be some of the staples. Cerveza, soda lemonade and bottled water are the key beverages. So far only one person has had tummy issues.
I have seen no bugs, leeches or scorpions. I hope it stays that way.
Our hotel in Coban is great - much better than I ever imagined. I am sharing a room with one other lady. We have our own bathroom with shower. It has a medieval feeling to it.
We met our Habitat families this afternoon. Everyone was very shy - our Spanish is no better than their English. But the smiles and nods say tons.
Our hotel has a computer with internet. I´ll write again soon. Tomorrow is the first day of the Build. We´ll be building 2 homes, the walls have been started , the goal is that the roof will be put on this weekend. The masons seem eager to make us work hard!
Until later,
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