Our first full day! Kathy Roach is a nurse volunteer here that Geneen has had some contact with before we came, and she’s been a fantastic resource for anything we might need. We went into the town of Santiago (the Hospitalito and our communtiy are just outside the town) with her and her friend Jean, who’s here visiting from Venezuela. As it’s Holy Week, there are all sorts of celebrations and more tourists than usual. It’s an intersting walk of less than a kilometer along a footpath near the shore of the lake. Upon getting into the town, we saw many armed guards, and upon inquiring learned that the president of the republic was in town. There was music, and people doing a dear dance, and a man on a microsphone speaking alternately in Tsutujil and Spanish, and there, maybe 50 feet in front of us, was Presidente Colom.
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