On the way to Nino's school this morning. You can see why it's dusty here

This is the classroom for the school. Actually, this is the whole school. They teach 75 kids between 4 and 6 years old here from the pueblo. They were painting when we arrived and varnishing the desks, modeled by Rich below.


It wouldn't be a post without a TP reference. Here is TP with mini-TP.


The young girls all wear very colorful clothes .



Tonight we headed over the lake by boat to Panajachel for dinner with the campers. It was about a 30 minute ride there by a fairly speedy boat with great views of the volcanoes on the way. This town is bigger than Santiago and we saw many stores and stalls selling local clothing and jewelry. The dinner was at he Chapparal restaurant with a disco for the campers and some spectacular dance-floor moves were on show. We all came back together on a larger and slower boat and crossing the lake in darkness was quite an experience. No marker bouys in sight. The stars were magnificent and we just lay on the deck trying to take in the brilliance of the night sky. It doesn’t look like that in Boston!!