Sunday, May 7, 2017

Estamos aprendiendo

We spent the weekend after week#1 of language school in Canilla so Don could work in the clinics, I could get some things done, and we could see our kids!  On Sunday, Caleb and Hannah drove us back to Antigua to start our second week of school.  It was a little funny that once they dropped us off, the truck seemed to go faster.  Must have been the extra weight?? 

We were right back at it on Monday morning at 8 am.  We skipped the afternoon excursion because it was the same as the previous Monday and we were tired!!!

But Tuesday our afternoon excursion found us back on a chicken bus.  We were headed to a village called San Juan de Obisbo,  There we went to a 'wine' tasting and an artisan chocolate shop.

This painting was on the wall at the wine maker's shop.  It is the story of the miracle at the wedding in Cana where Jesus turned water into wine.  In this case, it was wine made of 'Nisperos' (loquats) instead of grapes.  This was the only kind of 'wine' that we tasted.  It tasted more of what I imagined moonshine tastes like! ;) He had lots of varieties to try but we were more interested in talking to him about his trees and if Don could grow a Nispero tree in Canilla!!


And then off to the chocolate shop.  These guys are grinding the cacao seeds into a fine powder and then pressing it into a bowl to be formed, cut and weighed.


Here is some of the powder drying.


They are cutting, weighing and forming the chocolate into disks.  It is then sold to be made into hot chocolate or mole.


On Thursday afternoon, we learned to make chuchitos from these sweet ladies! 


They were super yummy!


We also walked up to the famous Antigua cross!  I think it was about 1000 steps to get up there!! ;)


We stopped to sit, rest and pray before we headed back to town.


Some pictures that Don took as we walked through town.


It was pretty hazy and cloudy for most of our time in Antigua but occasionally we could see a volcano peeking out from the grayness.


Each day during class we took a 'pausa' to go to the bathrooms and get a snack.  These were available everyday for Q3 (about 50 cents).  Very yummy!


On Friday, the kids drove to Antigua to pick us up so we could head to Guatemala City. We were excited to go to the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie on Friday night!  And then Caleb flew out on Saturday for 3 weeks in the States.  We are very excited for his time there and are praying for the Lord to be speaking to his heart. 

We are praying that at least some of what we learned during our time at language school sticks!  The learning is not done by a long shot but hopefully we made some progress! 

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