April 19, 2006
Ay Bonita
This is one of the Many fashions among the indigenous women. This particlar outfit happened to be (according to chip) very fashionable for this time. (The Style is ever changing). This outfit's retaill price is about 2000 pesos ($200).
Foozball
This is a foozball table at the carnival Lyn, Janet, and I attended in a town called Zinacantan a suburb near Chiapas.
Chicas
These were some of the candy chickens that she was selling, they were quite expensive, 50 pesos each (five dollars). Lyn bought five and put them on the table in her house. There quite cute.
The Orange Lady
This woman had the weirdest assorcement of food I had ever seen. so many brightly colored pastries. (as greasy as they are colorful). I was going to buy one, but I was afriad I would get sick. I should have bought it anyway because a day later I did get sick.
little boy hidding between tables
This little boy was hidden from view. He was hiding under a table.
His parents probably were working at the meat market. Many of the
children stay by their parents side while the parents work.
many uses of shawls
The scarves that the women are wearing in this photo they use
for many purposes... they use them to carry groceries, to carry
their babies, to shade their face from the sun and they use them
like we do in NYC as shawls--->fashion!
mango lady at market
This lady is actually getting pictures that lou took last june when
the mango lady was selling oranges.
Trash at the Market
When we went to the market there was lots of trash and children
near by, not to mention the dog in this picture was one of many.
Day 4 in Mexico
Day 4:
Well let me just say it was not the best day ever!
The day started out nicely everyone excited because
this was our free day. Mary had already gotten
the sickness from the water, so anyway the plan
was that my mom was going to take us (the girls)
out to the town and we were going to go shopping
but for some reason in the beginning of the day my
stomach was gargling so I was not too happy…
Not really knowing what it was, I decided to keep it
to my self…. well then it hurt even more and then
even more so I decided I had the sickness after a
long time. So I told my mom I was going to stay.
Then I fell asleep………………………………..
Now I’m in bed w/ Beatrice and a bug just fell on
Beatrice.
Later on I woke up- due to my stomach not feeling so
Good. I went to the bath room and I got sick so I
took some medicine and then I waited while I took
another little nap. Then my mom and Beatrice came home
and they were both sick. Then we ate some crackers
and are hoping to get better from here on. Then my mom
said that she was feeling much better. Then Dave and my
Mom had some cafe con leche and I rested some more.
April 18, 2006
Our Group
The Lower East Side Girls Club is back in San Cristobal de las Casas. We arrived April 12, 2006 to work on our next book about the fashions of the indigenous peoples with anthropologist/author Walter "Chip" Morris and photojournalist Janet Schwartz. Whille here, we are also celebrating our book publication "village voices/ virtual journey," a photographic exploration of the world of the Maya and the world of our NYC girls.