Personal Shopping trip!

Happy fourth of july! Was not exactly the most festive of holidays here in guatemala. But, we were able to be together and "celebrate" with each other.

Fourth of July!

Me and Whit

Bruschetta

Tomato and Avocado Salad

After a fun fourth of July today we had a early morning campaign at the store front. We were able to give our ipod to the store next door who blasted music which made it enjoyable. I did not persoanlly do much during the campaign as we had 9 people manning the station. I was mostly in charge of more marketing and directly people to where they could get free eye exams and free water from our filter.

After the campaign we had free time and we got a delicious lunch.

Steamed Vegetables and Chicken!

We then were set up with the owner of Hiptipico- a company that sells Guatemalan hand made products by local artisans to the United States. But, she took us to all the stores where they are made so we could get all the items whole sale price! It was a really fun afternoon and I got a leather bag and a few pieces of jewelry!

Writing my name in the leather bag!

IT IS MINE!

Us with Alyssa the owner of Hip Tipico at a whole sale store.

After our shopping spree we went to Casa Kakchiquel where Nikki used to work. It is the first hotel that opened in this part of Guatemala and housed Che Guevera! We had a dinner of the traditional dish Pepian and then watched a documentary about the Guatemalan genocide with clips that were used in the Rios Montt trial. It was definitely a hard video to watch at times but really was eye opening about the war and the silence that is still present about it in Guatemala. 

Us at dinner

Pepian!

Tomorrow we have another campaign in Pana! Hopefully it is successful and in the afternoon we are returning to the lakeside villa!