Well I said I wasn't going to update until the end of the week, but last night was very worthy of recognition...

Like I said before, the camping spot we are staying at has a sweat lodge, or Temaskal, and a couple of days ago we inquired about using it.  Elder told us that if we amassed enough interest.  He surprised us by having one set up yesterday, after we got off from work.  We lit the fire by 4 P.M., and got in the Lodge at 6 (it was already dark by then).  It was a very nice ceremony: the lodge was garnished with eucalyptus leaves, there was a large group of about 12 people, we did chants, songs, and also gave our prayers to Pachamama (mother earth).  It was interesting doing a ceremony in total Spanish.  After a couple hours of cleansing our minds, bodies, and spirits, we got out and were promptly hosed down with cold water.  It felt amazing.  I slept like a baby last night.

This morning, we awoke at 7:30 and went down to the farm.  They had us pick tomatillos for an hour, and then we had a nice breakfast of french toast and coffee.  Unfortunately, Rebecca's stomach wasn't feeling too hot, so we encouraged her to go back to the camping spot to rest in hammock. Julian proceeded to lead SImon and I through a grueling session of clearing out two corn feild plots.  First he gave us some coca leaves and then he set a fast pace of clearing grass and dried brush.  Once we cleared the feilds, we grabbed tarps to move all our debris to the edge of the terrace.  We ended up learning that Julian has 67 years of age, 7 children, 2 grandchildren, and to top it all off he works twice as hard as Simon and I combined.  We ate a cold lunch accompanied with some excellent lime-aid.  Wew returned to the farm and finished clearing the feilds, then Julian gave us some arbitrary grass pulling to occupy us for the last 30 minutes.  All in all it was a hard days work with plenty of sun, but at the same time it was very gratifying.

Now, we are just chilling around the Pueblo.  We have all the ingredients for barbecue chicken sandwiches, minus the BBQ (so they're chicken sandwhiches).  I am currently decked out in my winter wear, but was wearing my summer shorts earlier today on the farm.  So it goes in the mountains.  

Ok, enough for now.  Chao!