the first time since the beginning of our trip I feel this nedzniutkim small hotel in San Pedro at home. We are here almost a week. We have your room, table and hammock front of our house. Every morning they come a teacher. At half-time "teaching" the mother of the owner - Indian Age of long gray braids - gives us a delicious Guatemalan coffee and something to snack. The owner is nice, it comes too often his 15 year old daughter Caroline. We have a nice neighbor - retired from Chicago. We feel a little as if we lived in the family. Especially through the atmosphere it generates grandmother. It prepares us to breakfast and dinner.
Wlasciciekl school invited us yesterday to his home. Overall, we thought that in San Pedro will notice also a little tease apart, but actually rarely wychylalismy noses outside our house. First, I am ill and almost all day after school I was in bed (when Martin was on an Indian charity concert for victims of Hurricane Stan in the region), the next day unfolded in August Martin. But generally nice time passes. Recently hours in the life of the city was a very important day - the feast of the Virgin Mary and on this occasion was the evening organized a huge procession. A bit like us in Corpus Christi, but the climate is completely different. Such Latin American religiosity has little to do with the Polish piety, prayers and meditation. Here, coating the world church is always baaardzo sumptuous. Before we went in procession, however, visited owner of the school. They gave us a traditional tamale (the mass of the tortilla with some meat in the leaves of the tree). Martin talkin 'with the host about the advertising possibilities for improving the school, in order to attract more customers, I and I spend the time talking to daughters. 20 year old girl looks like here normally dignified matron. At this age also appear generally Tables of gold inlays in the teeth. 26 year old teacher, Martin looks like a lot older than him. Despite this, at all, as we previously thought Indian no haste to marry. Many tells us that he wants to realize his career first - most often it means education in the profession a teacher, social worker, nurse or secretary. Indian society is obviously very conservative. The women wear only their traditional costumes, live at home until their parents get married, do not drink alcohol, do not pile and generally have to take care of his very reputation. Features man and a woman are here strictly divided - according to the patriarchal pattern.
Funny, but here all the women for us to look the same. From malenkosci through to old age wearing the same clothes and in a similar way upinaja their beautiful long hair. This is lovely. Deplorably against the background of the traditionally-dressed men Indianek look with your hair on the gel, the bazarowych jerseys adidas, similar to those worn by Polish hooligans. Only the older Indians behave fashion.
After a visit with the owner of the school we see the processions. He does it for us really incredible impression!! In some places play a great band - combining religious texts of the Latin American rhythms. On the streets every now and then burst crackers. At one point one of the streets startin 'to burn anything from exploding bombs. From behind the wildly exploding firecrackers, the smoke and darkness emerges slowly, dignified Virgin Mary, brought to the platform lit dozens of lamps. With the present follows the procession, and her hundreds of women of covered mostly identical pledami. Spreads intermittent bursts of singing next "bomb".
We're going home quite early, because Martin's breathtaking fever.
Author: Ola
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