Dancing Merengue!

I've learned how dance to merengue! This is a video of my host sister and me dancing. :)

Learning to use my hard head

A few days ago my Guatemalan host mom asked me to help her move a quintal (100 lbs.) of raw corn. She offered to help me move it with the car but I wanted to try out a more traditionally Guatemalan way of moving heavy objects. Papa Jorge (my family's grandpa) lent me his micapal for a few minutes to carry the corn to the mill. I don't think he hooked the micapal on very well because my neck was killing me at the end of my trip. While I was walking through the streets of my small town everyone came out to laugh at the gringo carrying 100 pounds with his neck. Papa Jorge told me that when he was younger he used to take 250 pounds using a micapal. I should probably get used to lighter weights first...