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jun b'ey chïk: Line dancing with Mayans
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Lunes, 28 de julio de 2008. Line dancing with Mayans. While we were in Panajachel, every night we had a "culture night" planned. Sometimes the teachers were in charge, sometimes the students. The idea was cultural exhange, and events ranged from dancing, singing, showing pictures of New Orleans post-Katrina, showing pictures of an archeological site, making Navajo tacos, giving a summary of a Mayan epigraphy conference, and so forth. I've got that pandemonium shirt! 28 de julio de 2008, 8:30. A grid line...
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jun b'ey chïk
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Viernes, 6 de julio de 2007. Today was my last day of class. It was a fun class. we learned animals, so all the instructors had to act out different animals, and it was hysterical. My teacher from the first two weeks had to be a dog, and he crawled around barking, and then he went over to someone, lifted his leg, and pretended to pee on them! I seriously about died laughing. Publicar un comentario en la entrada. Suscribirse a: Enviar comentarios (Atom). Last time I was out. (Chile). Ver todo mi perfil.
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jun b'ey chïk: Learning Kaqchikel is serious business
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Sábado, 5 de julio de 2008. Learning Kaqchikel is serious business. As you can clearly see in the above picture, our daily classroom environment is highly serious. We don't laugh or make jokes at all. Everyone stays politely seated. Nope, no fun at all. Some of you may remember my post from last year about the day we learn animals. Since it's all communicative, this requires acting out the animals while repeating the vocabulary words. And as I posted last year, one of the funniest parts. I did manage to ...
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jun b'ey chïk: Market Day
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Lunes, 21 de julio de 2008. Here is the view from our hotel in Tecpan when we arrived:. And here is the view from or hotel on market day (during which it was actually sunny and warmish, certainly an oddity for Tecpan. On Friday we went to the market in Sololá. Waiting to head back down the hill to Panajachel. You'll notice that the men in Sololá still use their traje, something that is not very common, as women are usually the ones who preserve the Mayan dress in daily life. It is the best.
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jun b'ey chïk: julio 2007
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Miércoles, 11 de julio de 2007. I thought I'd post some picture for those still listening, now that I have my camera cord available. First one from right outside our door). This is pretty much your typical Antigua cafe:. Note the volcano on the far left -half covered in a cloud - smoking! This was the day after the 6.7-on-the-richter-scale earthquake. From the big cross on the hill overlooking Antigua. Lake Atitlán (on the way to Chichicastenango). Woman in the market at Chichi with a chicken on her lap.
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jun b'ey chïk: Tecpán and Iximche'
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Martes, 8 de julio de 2008. The past two days in Tecpán. Have been remarkably charming. The town itself has a population of around 60,000 people, and it's just outside the archaeological site of Iximche'. Which was the Kaqchikel capital when the Spanish arrived to Guatemala. (By the way, Iximche', which translates literally as Corn Tree, is breadfruit - for those of you Lusophonites who may know about that. There is a large tree in the center of the city that is THE Iximche'). The food sounds delicious!
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jun b'ey chïk: Intro to Panajachel
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Miércoles, 16 de julio de 2008. Due to popular demand, I'm posting an entry although I don't have pictures ready to post yet from the end of our Tecpán trip. There's not much to say really, but I wanted to post some pictures of market day. We have now migrated to Panajachel on Lake Atitlán. Pana itself is mostly a tourist town or a point of departure for other towns around the lake, some of which we have explored already. We went to San Pedro. So little by little I'm learning things. Ver todo mi perfil.
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jun b'ey chïk: junio 2008
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Lunes, 30 de junio de 2008. Traje and giving the matyoxnïk. Ok, I admit it. I gave in. I bought. To wear (*please note that is not me in the picture. I know the resemblance is striking.*) Sometimes other students will wear a thinner huipil untucked with a. But then this weekend I was talking to another student who's been coming here for a couple of years, and she told me about how she never bought any traje until she had to go to linguistics fieldwork in small towns. She discovered that wearing the.
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jun b'ey chïk: junio 2007
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Miércoles, 27 de junio de 2007. Appropriated by the Tulane-ites. Though we also had some pedagogical issues. Like there were times when we just sit at our table, not doing anything. Not talking, not writing, just sitting and staring. Seriously. Then she would say something along the lines of I already know so much that she doesn't know what to teach me, so what do I want to learn? Not exactly a question that a student can answer easily. Yes, it's exactly the same but with Spanish-speakers). So I've been ...
