Posts Tagged ‘boat across the lake’
The door of no return
Posted on: January 5, 2012
A few days ago we went on a hike to Cerro de Oro. First we had to take a kind of boat called a lancha from Panajachel to Santiago, which took a half an hour. When we got there we had to walk up past the market until me and my teacher saw a pick-up truck and my sister’s teacher asked the driver if he could take us to the place on the volcano where we were going to hike. There was no space in the front of the pick-up, so we had to ride in the back, standing up, and it was crowded.
It wasn’t a real volcano all by itself, but it was on the side of big volcano, Volcan Toliman, and it was called Cerro de Oro, which looks like an elephant but its name means “small mountain of gold.” We didn’t find any gold there, but we did see a rock formation in the shape of a monkey that was all black from where people built fires on it because of ceremonies they had there.
I found a tooth there, on the ground, it was a little bloody at the end and it was sort of white but it was mostly dirty. I don’t know what it was from, I was too scared to pick it up, and I just left it there.
We saw two iguanas, one had silver-blue scales on its neck, and the other was purple. They were bigger than my shoe and they were hanging out behind a rock together. People here eat iguanas, they sell them in the market on Sundays.
We saw the land below, and the lake, and flowers, and a cave. There’s supposed to be a door, where the people here hid their gold when the Spanish were looking for it. They say that if you go in the door now, you never come back out. We didn’t see the door. If we go back and find the door, I’m going to bring a jetpack, and some rope, and some armor, and some Ninja stuff so I can go in and take care of whatever it is that’s keeping people.
Boats and the Internet cafe
Posted on: November 17, 2011
15 Nov 2011
On Monday in Spanish school I made a boat from bamboo and a plastic bag. After school Dad and I went to Panajachel again and I rode in the bow of the boat both ways. The lake on the way there was smooth as glass but on the way back the boat bounced on big waves. In Panajachel, me and our friend AL and these other kids played tag, the name in Spanish is “tigre,” same as tiger.
In Spanish school I learned new words. Tomorrow me and my teacher Jose are going to help Vicente make leather bags. Today my dad and I went to the Internet café after Spanish school and lunch. We bought four things, 1) was a strawberry and banana smoothie, 2) nachos with extra cheese, 3) then we had a big real big pizza it was so good, 4) then I had a beer which was really a ginger ale. I am sitting on a patio that you can see a great view of the lake. From the balcony of the café I can see a mountain that is really a Mayan man laying down.
The trip to San Pedro
Posted on: November 7, 2011
6 November 2011
Today we had to do a lot of things. We had to get dressed, go downstairs and have breakfast, go back upstairs, pack our bags, and get ready to leave on the boat. Once we were at the lake to get a boat to go to San Pedro, this man kept asking us if we wanted to ride over to San Pedro in his private boat named Lago Azul, which means Blue Lake in English. He made the price high at first but we bargained it to a little lower price, and when we got on there was eight seats for eight people. One seat was in the back, two were in the middle back, two were in the middle, and two were in the front, and two more seats in the front: the back seat was for the driver.
Once we were across the water, the motor made the water in the lake splash across my face it felt so good. A few minutes later we approached two volcanoes, and my dad wanted to climb the volcanoes some day. He said we might hike up half the way all of our family together, but I would like to go to the top with him. Then we rode a little ways further and another boat raced us and made a huge wake that made our boat rock back and forth and it felt like we were going to tip. Finally we reached San Pedro. There was a dock and if you kept going there was a restaurant where the floor was covered with water and it would have been a good restaurant if the water hadn’t gotten in it.
We walked across the streets and the person came to pick us up and to show us the family we’re staying with’s house. Next when we walked up a not so dark alleyway we went up 31 stairs until we reached this black metal gate. The people who live there opened the gate and we slowly walked through the garden to the porch. They had to take a few minutes because they didn’t know we were going to come so early and they still had to make our room. They have a kitten that is really fat and fluffy and has short legs and her name is Palusa. Finally they were done with our room, we walked up the stairs, there were two rooms, one for me and my sister and one for my parents.
After a few hours or so we took a walk just my dad and my sister and I. We tried to get down to the lake the first way down a dark alley but there were people kayaking so we couldn’t go there because there was no beach. So we tried some other places but they were all private. We took this hike through this cornfield, we tried to find another lake area but it was no use. We walked through a corn maze to find the school we are going to tomorrow, and we found one of the parts of the school after we walked through a horse pasture. When we were slowly coming back there was this a herd dog that kept following us and when we got out to the street we walked out through the trees and finally found a place where we could swim and my sister turned around and the dog was still following us.
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