I am moving my photo posting here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alicejam. It´s more suited to photos and has a handy map.

Here´s what´s going on here:

San Cristobal is a city that, for one reason or another, makes Maddy, Anne and I crave sweets. All the time. We cook a lot of interesting thing at home while listening to mariachi, and tonight I created what I think of as my San Cristobal dish: coconut yogurt with crushed oreos, bananas, peanut butter, and cajeta (goat milk caremel).


Na´luum is pretty great. There theme is El problema es la solucion, and could also be Do Something. They are always using whatever is around to grow plants in or make windows out of. Our Spanish is pretty unfortunate which is more noticable at the hostal, where we work with hip kids, than at the schools, where the children seem content with conversational topics such as: Do you have siblings? and What is this thing called?

As evidenced, I am trying to get all my pictures up here. It´s a bit of an arduous process at the old internet cafe. Last week, we rushed the Cancun and Chichen Itza, the spectacle of the Mayan world. We spent a couple days in Campeche, a lovely ocean town. Now we´ve settled into our house in San Cristobal De Las Casas for the month. We can get all our produce at the mercado, and I made succesful sopa de limon last night. These days, there are marigolds and pine needles everywhere for dia de los muertos, and the children all sing us this song:

buenas noches mi amigo estoy de nuevo contigo
el banquete esta servido, de ti nunca me olvido
no te preocupes, a trazido mucha cerveza
esta noche su lapida es nuestra mesa

NUESTRO ENCUENTRO ESTA CIERTO
SIEMPRE RECUERDO DEL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
EL FIM ESTA INCIERTO
SIEMPRE RECUERDO DEL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

...for candy, and little hands appear from everywhere when the candy is out.