Publicity Day

Today was the start to the work we are going to be doing for the rest of the summer! We went into the town of Patzicia, a small indigenous pueblo, in order to advertise for our campaign that is going to be next Saturday. We arrived made flyers and posters about how we were going to do free eye vision exams with the opportunity to buy other products next Saturday. We practiced talking in Spanish to say: We want to invite you to a vision clinic next Saturday in the Good Neighbor shop from 9-1 where we will be offering free eye exams and have a lot of other products!

Muoser and I were partners and would go up to indigenous men and women, whose second language was Spanish also, and tell them about our campaign. I was so surprised with how receptive all of the people we talked to were! I was expecting people to ignore those annoying people walking around with flyers but instead once we talked a lot of people were really excited about it and were asking so many questions! People were even coming up to us asking what we were promoting. We gave away over 200 flyers just us alone and it was really cool to see this indigenous village. Hopefully the publicity we did today is enough for these people to show up to our campaign next Saturday!

There was an indigenous wedding in the middle of the park!

A group of us with the indigenous woman that is part of our campaign who helps us connect with the local people. 

The market where we publicized this morning. 

More of the market.

And more..I thought the pictures were great!

Raylin shows an example of how we would go up to people with flyers and tell them about our campaign.

It was Ryan's birthday so after our publicity we returned to Antigua got lunch and went to Monoloco, a very touristy sports bar to watch the championship soccer game. The place was packed and it was really fun watching in such a fun environment! Even though both teams were from Germany the crowd would go wild when anything exciting would happen. 

Such a crew at Monoloco for the soccer game. 

Unfortunately I have a little fever and am not feeling great but hopefully its just a 24 hour thing and I get over it because tomorrow at 7am we are hiking Volcano Pacaya!