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Day 6: Fresh Chicken and Market Madness

Today, we made a Guatemalan traditional dish from scratch with a local woman in one of the coffee co-ops: Pepian con Pollo. To start the dish, you take a live chicken (yes, fully alive and moving!), put it head down into a metal cone over a empty sink (just enough so...

Artisan workshops!

Yesterday was packed! We started the day finishing up our construction projects! After showers that involved lots of soap and scrubbing to remove cement we all split into three groups to attend artisan workshops. I attended the textile workshop and met Eliva who told...

Day 4 & 5: Dirt and Art

Sorry for the lack of a post yesterday – both of us bloggers were beat from a long day of construction working and it just happen to slip both of their tired minds. On day four, we spent all of our day building a roasting patio and a fermentation tank for a...

Day 3: Black Gold

Hello all! Today was our first full day in Gautemala and it has been quite the learning experience! We woke up at around 7:30am and had fresh eggs and beans for breakfast! It sounds so simplistic but it was amazing. We then hiked up Volcano Aqua. It took our group...