Our day began wit leftover chicken with a red sauce over rice tht is very good. There was also the native bread which fills yu up. My blood sugar was 127 this morning, but that could be from the bowl of lentils and rice we ate at Mart´s fiesta abut 10 pm last night. I will have to watch the effect of the corn tortillas on my BG.
We had no formal class today because we had another field trip, this time to the open air market, San Francisco el Alto. We left with Juan as our guide (Don´s teacher) and took a small bus to a bigger round-about to catch a ¨chicken bus¨for the trip. Let me tell you about the chicken bus. They are actually yellow school busses. These busses are painted very colorfully and many of them have been named. You may have guessed that they STUFF as many people and their stuff into these busses as they can. Large bundles are put on top of the bus. I actually saw a basket of chickens with a mesh cover over the top of them loaded onto the top of the bus. You sit at least 3 to a seat and the aisle are full as well. They give no quarter as they rumble down the street and they follow the same rules of the road as the rest of Guatemala--- absolutely anything goes!
Before leaving the market we were told to leave anything valuable at home since the large number of people invites pick-pockets and they are good. We followed this advice and there is a story to go with this one you will get later.
Don has run out of steam for today so I will tell you about the market next time we find ourselves here at Xelapages.
