Just another Monday

It´s monday afernoon in Xela and i just finished lunch with my family. Well, it wasn´t with the family. the two other americans where there and the youngest son was eating, too. And Senora was there too make the food. I´m not sure what i had. i think it was crepes with eggs inside. and rice on the side. Sometimes it´s best not too ask. The senora knows that i don´t eat the four-legged criters. i´m sure they like the situation as they save some money by not buying beef.

The weekend went by but i didn´t seem to do too much. However, i didn´t get around to completing my homework. oops. My teacher forgave me. I´ll do it tonight, i think.

Once again my lack of spanish skills was evident. i ran into some people who were working the Tour of Guatemala bike race. I asked where the race would start on sunday. They told me. I went there. Right time. Wrong place. But i was on the right road so i did see the guys go by. I´m not sure the Tour de France works the same way as here.

The road was never shut down completely. About a minute before the cyclists came, they stopped other traffic from driving on the road. Less than a minute after the last support van passed, it was business as usual.

I went to see a presidential candidate speak. the election is sunday november 4. the crowd was not as big as i would expect. Each candidate has their own election song. Music seems to be an important part of life here.

i´m told that the candidate i saw, Colon, was asked`Is it true you shot and killed a man while in a bar in Mexico?` His response `No. I shot and killed two men.`

I´m told that the other candidate stole $100million + from the treasury. He went south for 10 or so years and now he`s back.

All the sudden the US candidates don´t seem so bad.

I hit the markets on both weekend days. I wish i could have taken pictures of the goat heads for sale but, for some reason, i didn´t feel comfortable. despite the fact that i could probably afford them, I didn´t ask the price.

I think you can buy anything you want at the market. there was a spice corner, a (non-refrigerated) meat aisle, a whole block of shoe kiosks and plenty of fruit.

It is all good.

Time to pick up the laundry (Q5 per kilo) and hit the books.

Pics soon??? I hope.