Day 5

Breakfast: papaya and a delicious tomato omelet; perhaps all the salt Ordelia uses is why the food tastes so good.

Class as usual though the garden was absolutely freezing!  Wishing I had brought more warmer clothes.  I only have one pair of jeans and my one other pair of long pants are of thin material.

Lunch: A very tender breaded chicken breast (schnitzel like) served with tasty guacamole and a beet/onion vegetable side.

Afternoon activity sponsored by the school was a cooking lesson by one of the teachers back in the garden.  She was making Chuchitos.  It was quite humorous with her asking for volunteers and making one of them stay up at the front for quite awhile but again I didn't understand a lot of the explanation due to my limited Spanish comprehension.

I'm impressed with their sanitary cooking etiquette, making sure we all washed our hands in the preparation of the food.  This was the same for the day before when we helped with the tortillas in the Mayan village.  The only thing that made me a little uncomfortable was that the Swiss volunteer who prepped the chicken wiped his hands on a towel that was on the table after he was done rather than going to wash his hands.  Perhaps that is one of the differences between here and Ghana.  Perhaps some african countries just need better hand washing and sanitary food preparation education to help avoid the spread of certain diseases.  Though other travelers warn about buying from street vendors, so far I've only encountered one traveler who has been sick due to poor food preparation during their trip.

After the class I went to a private salsa lesson.  It was good to be using another part of my brain rather than the language center and to be in my body rather than my head.  I feel a bit more comfortable with salsa though with any other partner than a professional salsa dancer as a lead I'd probably still tripping all over myself.  They again got me roped into signing up for another class.

Dinner: pasta with a wide variety of veggies!