The flyer from Mundo Maya sounded confident and filled with opportunity for activities from regional cooking to canoeing round the lake. I signed up for a week's worth, 20 hours schooling and a week with a family in San Jose. My new 'Mum' was Mirtala, she showed me around the family home. It consisted of two concrete and breeze block buildings. The first being the main home, had two 'bedrooms' soçectioned off by drapes. The main room had a table with a lacy cloth and six formal chairs, a short bench, a wardrobe, a table for kitchen utensils, a disconnected stove and a tall unit to house the TV, CD and DVD player. Everything was covered in lacey doilies and decorated with various knick-knacks made at school, received for mothers day or as congratulations for passing
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