Today started off badly. First, the city was filling with protesters to protest corruption ( obviously not the first time ) and I got handcuffed.
The protesters were not a problem - we were leaving the hotel early enough to beat the crowds.
Officer Jorge then arrested me on the bus for speaking Spanish poorly and brought out his handcuffs.
Why am I smiling? He has a key. Why is he smiling? He doesn't have a key. None of the officers carry the keys to their handcuffs so the prisoners can't try to get it from them. So even in my broken Spanish I convinced him not to actually put the handcuffs on while the rest of the bus was chanting for my arrest....
The following pictures are just a few of the youth we met today.
Really impressed with their willingness to do hard things - travel for hours to see us, to sit around for hours waiting, and then to be cheerful about the whole experience. Even willing to make faces with us and help us with our Spanish. And to be smiley even when their mouths are dormido ( numb ).
Today went by quickly. El tiempo vuela cuando tay estes divirtiendo !
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