Saturday

Best first day ever.  After waking up to Hari's lovely singing and getting to breakfast extra late, we made it to the Mayan Families headquarters here in Panajachel. Juan Carlos built an instructional stove for us, with Charlie translating of course, and we were off, loading the trucks and riding up into the beautiful mountains of San Jorge.
Team Fuego tore it up out there, hauling all our materials up a couple of side streets to a pair of houses well off the beaten path. The first stove we built was for a woman living in a 3-ish room house with her seven little girls. All completely adorable of course. The second was for a rowdy family of seven with a pig and a flock of chickens in their yard. After lunch our teams built 2 more stoves each, leaving the rest to be built Monday in Tierra Linda.
All in all, a fantastic first day. We had a ton of fun and accomplished so much. This first day alone was worth all the work we put into this trip, but I think everyone's looking forward to a less physically demanding day tomorrow.
Buenas noches a todos, y hasta luego.
Love,
Rotaract