I´m on blog patrol tonight because Nicole is recovering from a cute lil stomach bug that she got today but is recovering nicely. We just finished 2 weeks of spanish classes. I learned that smoking in spanish translates to tuxedo and pepian de chompipe is a delicious authentic dinner with turkey. i also learned that there are many "false friends" in spanish and lots of irregularities. verbs mostly. we went to another little town today, this one called Chile Verde, and Nicole gave another nice talk on nutrition, but puked halfway through, and i had the kids draw and then played soccer with them.

Thanks to everyone who wrote me happy birthday messages. I had a great birthday and got my face pushed into a cake and got hit with an egg filled with confetti.

this is our friend Tony who sometimes goes with us to do activities with the school. we do a lot of activities with the school.

Nicole in the streets of Zunil where we visited St. Maximon; an idle that is a mix of Mayan and Catholic beliefs and who switches locations every year and people dress him up in crazy outfits like full snow ski suits and feed him beer, which he pees into a bowl, and give him cigars. it cost about 75 cents to take a picture of him, but i didn´t feel right about doing that.

I´m taller than Mayan children. ¿Who knew?