An awesome (is the only word to describe it) naivity scene that the family make all from hand!!!
and alison really likes her gift of a magic towel that grew in warm water that i gave her for christmas from the states...

10 km hike around other aldeas in the mountains of El Chol!!!!

the Feria (Festival) of Granados where my friend Rebecca lives and we hung out with her friend who lives in China and our friends.. and then went to a dance beneath the stars!!
and then the bottom photo is of my office!! (i share an office with one of the two superintendents of the schools in El Chol!)

pictures of the center of El Chol (the park, church and statue of an indigenous Mayan leader and the main street...

seno evelyn, one of my really good friends in El Chol, LOVES her new gloves i brought her back the us!
we've begun our work on the library!! there's juan the librarian! check out how much work we've got to do- FIRST clean them! decide which ones juan wants to keep and which ones to donate! then turn them vertically instead of horizonatally! then make a grand bibliography! and then organize categories! get desks and chairs! ahh and more stuff! how exciting!!!! we've started!!!

after the goodbye party in Panajchel.. i headed back to my site.. 4 buses... gotta pass through San Juan first and then a 2 1/2 hour drive on dirt roads to my site in the El Chol. and then we have a picture of my site mate Devon, my friend Norma and me looking at pictures from her life after we looked at mine from Christmas...