lake atitlan, chichicastenango,,,

I FINALLY GOT INTO MY OWN BLOG. I just sat here for probably about 10 minutes trying to copy and paste an at sign...
I am in joco now, using blanca´s laptop. It´s a spanish computer and it´s very confusing. Blanca, brooke and I just got back from our weekend travel. We went first to panachjel, and then we decided to go to san marcos for the night, one of the more ¨hippie´´ villages on lake atitlan. So we took a boat all the way across the lake, got to the hostel, and it was raining. So we just stayed inside for the night and left at 7 in the morning. The hostel was really funny, it had a tiki roof, one light bulb, and a bunch of beds in one room. Each floor was lofted. We were the only ones there though. It was maybe 5 dollars for the night, so no complaints there.
Today we went to the chichi market, the biggest market in central america, as I think I mentioned, and it was so crazy! Kids would come up to you asking you to buy their things and follow you around for a while until they would give up. One lady had a nice tapestry and I asked her how much it was (big mistake) and she told me 300 Q. There are 8 Q to the dollar, so maybe almost 40? I told her no gracias and she followed me around lowering the price for SUCH a long time. She followed us all the way around the market, we tried to go into a store, she waited for us outside, and she lowered the price to 60 by the end. Unfortunately I just didn´t need any tapestries, even if it was less than 8 dollars. I really like the other volunteers, so things here are really good.

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