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In the morning we made our last journey to Comalapa to thank our becadas and the artesanas. We presented the videos we made yesterday and each of us said a few words (in Spanish) about what this [...]

By: Contento Pod (Jamie, Nickie, Anne, Meredith, and Sophia) We woke up this morning (today was a sleep-in — we slept until 8:30!) in our temporary “home,” Antigua, Guatemala. [...]

Today was our final day interviewing the weavers with our becadas. We started out the morning with an early final breakfast of omelets in Chimaltenango and then returned to the Rosa Maya Center [...]

Today, Tuesday the 8th, we awoke early to the sound of rain on our hotel’s tin roof. After a breakfast of “oatmeal” (which, as is traditional, didn’t have many oats), [...]

San Juan La Laguna is a community hidden from the fast pace of the modern world. The women walk the streets in traditional Guatemalan outfits, babies cradled across their chests in colorfully [...]

Here are some photos and videos of Casti students in San Juan la Laguna. Your browser does not support the video tag Your browser does not support the video tag

Note to readers: This blog may not make complete sense…but at least we had fun writing it?  And consumed a considerable amount of sugary items? Love, the Contento pod group 🙂 Day One was [...]

Casti Students from the 2012 Global Investigator trip to Guatemala document their experience with the MayaWorks weavers. Students took photographs and conducted interviews depicting the lives of [...]

What a delightful day in Antigua! Yesterday was our most relaxing day so far…but no less productive! We had the pleasure of sleeping in until 8 (quite late by our standards) and enjoyed a [...]

Today was an adventure – an adventure with new food, new people, new ideas, and new personal narratives to explore. As planned, we spent several hours today with the artisanas – the weavers – in [...]