Por Fin

So I realized the blog has had zero contribution from the Chapín region, so here we go:

This is one of our little classes. This was a self-employment class (we have been teaching a lot of those beacause our manager thinks they are more important).

McClain and I eat at Dominoes on special occasions. Here I am eating what is called the "Piza Chapín." In stead of tomato sauce, it is smothered in beans. As toppings, there are cheeze and onions and longaniza.

Perhaps you can see where my heart is. This is called Fiambre. I don't know if they make it there, but here they make it only the 1st/2nd of Noviembre. Traditionally, people would bring all of their food to the cemetery to share. So fiambre is the combination of everything on hand. They soak cooked veggies in pineapple vinager for a day and then mix it with every meat and cheese at hand. I loved it every day.

I was pretty jealous of all of your exotic-looking pictures. We live in a cold dusty little highland town (which I love to death), but this is NOT where we live, I just had to compete for the beautiful picture contest. This is lake Atitlán. We spent 2 days of vacation here. Beautiful.

On the way back from Atitlán, we passed this active little volcano (that is destroying its larger partner...) called San Tiaguito. There are volcanoes everywhere here. It is great.