Field trip

To the public library in Copan. Everyone's first time visiting a library, of any sort. The idea was for the women to see how a library looks, how it works.

Talking with a librarian. He explained how books are organized, a little about the Dewey decimal system. Here, he's explaining what a dictionary is.

The library in Copan is run by a Finnish NGO. They're having a meeting in Copan of all of their librarians in October. To talk about how things are going, share ideas. And they invited us. Dona Santos exchanged numbers with one of the librarians. Hopefully they'll stay in touch, and someone from Brisas will go.

The library has story hour twice a week. Once in Spanish, once in Chorti. The Chorti story hour is more about telling stories, not reading them. Dona Cecilia liked that idea. She can't read. One of the librarians told her that a library was a place for sharing stories from memory, not just from books.

So, a pretty successful trip. Ideas, advice, connections. To celebrate, we bought books. A dictionary and two atlases to grow our tiny reference section.