Marian Chistiansen and other students from UMR's Women as Global Leaders class have joined Jared and the rest of the gang in Guatemala. In addition to Jared's Journal, we'll be providing some posts from Marian, starting with the following:

The WAGL students woke up around 3:45 in the morning to catch their first flight. It has been an interesting trip with lots of unexpected happenings. The drive from Guatemala City to Chichicastenango was bumpy, and full of scenery that was beautiful. We arrived in Chichicastenango around 4 p.m. Guatemalan time. We ate at a place called Cafe San Juan,which we must say has the world's greatest chocolate con leche (hot chocolate made with milk).

As we were going to bed, a processional was in the streets in preparation of Holy Week, thus keeping us up for a while.

Day two, Sunday...We woke up to a nice Pancake breakfast provided by the hotel. We then ventured into the streets for Market Day. After about an hour in the streets, we went to Pastor Thomas´s house to assist the UMR students working on a new watter system setup there. We then left their house and went to the orphanage in Lemoa, where we got to play with the children.