Another new sunny day in Todos Santos. It is like Norway during easter, hot, clear skies and absolutely beautiful. The photo is me attacking a watermelon on the roof of my house...looovely!
Anyway, some of the point of this trip is to work at plantations, and I am off to La Bendicion, which means the blessing. It is one of Kab´awil (a organisation working for the rights of Indians) oldest plantations, or fincas as they call them, and I think it will be a great experience. La Bendicion is known for its coffee, pineapples, papaya, peanuts and bananas, and we will spend the first few days of next week picking bananas. I am going to live with a single mother (unsure where the husband is) and her three children. The cool thing is that she is pretty high up in the running of Kab´awil, so could probably get some amazing stories out of her in addition to lots of information.
Yesterday we did our first interview for our documentary, Kenny, the son of my Spanish teacher, devoted Barcelona fan and with a wish to become a teacher. Andreas did the interview because of his already excisting Spanish skills, but I will definitively be able to do it myself soon, the Spanish is getting better every day. I had a chat to my Spanish teacher yesterday and it is pretty crazy how focused Norway, Australia and the West is on goods and services. I told her how much my flight ticket cost, it is about half a year salary for a Guatemalteco and I just felt kind of sick...We spend a lot of money, that is for sure...
Anyway, off to play cards on the roof of my house! And all ex-RMITers, if you read this, drop me a line on maphilaaa(at)yahoo.no and let me know how you are doing!
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