Ernesto Padilla

          After five days of working in both morning and afternoon, it was a relief to only have work for an hour and a half. The day began with the typical breakfast of oatmeal and black beans. The work consisted of polishing and filing some spoons. We spent the whole hour and a half on just one spoon, it took a lot of time and patience. The wood was incredibly hard and only hacked out with machete. The man there told us the story behind the particular wood which is found only high up in the volcano. It was really beautiful but sadly no one took any pictures.
          After coming back from a light work day we headed back to the hotel to prepare for lunch. I lied down for a moment and one of my roommate told me that there was a scorpion in my bed. I did not believe him, but after standing up and looking at the sheets from the foot of the bed and I saw it. After my roommate left in a lightning quick way out of the room and alerted the others. In a matter of second our room became a zoo. Everyone came rushing into the room.
          After dinner we were invited to a bond fire with another group of high school students from Wisconsin. So at almost eight we went to the hotel right next to ours to get to meet the Wisconsin group. When we arrive at their hotel it was quite crowded at the beginning but after a while the place began to empty out. We went around introducing ourselves and telling what we are interested in. After singing songs and talking we decided to call it a night. Today, Sunday was different. We began the day with breakfast, and we headed to Santiago De Atitlan in a Mayan taxi which is all of us in the back of a pick up truck. It was a great view on the way over there.
         Upon our arrival to Santiago Atitlan we went to Church there, it was really full. The crowd spread to the outside of the Church. We arrived exactly on time, right when the mass was about to begin. It was a special mass there were about 23 priest and the Bishop that was celebrating the Eucharist. After mass we had about two hours to tourist around before returning to San Lucas. Some went shoping others went to the take a look of the lake. After the two hours we returned back to San Lucas in the same pick up and arrived safety back.