This week has been eye-opening. After being here for nearly a month, I'm only now really experiencing the two sides of life that I had heard about. The dichotomy between rich and poor is very evident here, as I talked about in my former blog. This week I had first-hand experiences with both sides. On Monday, we visited the Popol Vuh, a Mayan museum at a the fancy, private university here in the city. We had an interesting tour with the docent, and then afterward had a little pottery activity to practice making pottery like the Maya. During this time, I had an opportunity to speak more with our docent. It turns out that she had gone to high school in America during the early 1980s in Pennsylvania at a boarding school which cost $1,500 a
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