The Jade Factory & Doña Luisa

(Pictures top to bottom: Emily and I; Liz and Teryn; the sign...probably don't even need an explanation for that, but oh well; and our attempt to get a picture of the "famous" guy without being noticed!)
So yesterday, the other interns and I decided to go on the Jade Factory/Museum tour with our school (jade is really big here in Guatemala, especially in jewelry). There were only 4 other people who came along and we quickly figured out why! First of all, the tour guide spoke in Spanish – and that wouldn’t have been so bad if my brain wasn’t already tired of it- plus I could barely hear what our tour guide was saying. He was so quiet. We saw how jade was sanded and made into figurines, jewelry, etc.; the history of jade; and a bunch of jewelry that was made out of jade. After the tour, Emily, Teryn, Liz, and I went to Doña Luisa- a little café/bakery. This place smelled so good!!! It was awesome! Emily & Teryn got pineapple smoothies, Liz got Cocunut ice cream, and I had a boring Sprite because my stomach was being funny. It’s all of those starches….they’re just stopping me up! The girls let me taste each of their treats, though, and they were pretty good. We had lots of fun taking goofy pictures and talking about how Teryn’s teacher, Omar, has a crush on her and wants to marry her! After about 15 minutes, we noticed that there was some type of interview going on behind us a few tables back. This lady had her little recorder out and was asking this guy a lot of questions. We thought he might be some important political guy so we pretended to take pictures (I've included one for you here for your enjoyment) and a video of ourselves in an attempt to eavesdrop. Come to find out, this guy was some famous architect here in Guatemala who also writes poetry. We kind of like our political person story better, so we’re going to stick with that one. After Doña Luisa, we walked to the park and discovered that some marching band was playing under the arches. We sat on the stairs and listened to them play for about half an hour until it started to rain. Luckily, Teryn and I didn’t have far to walk since our house was just around the corner, but the raindrops were huge so we still got pretty wet!