Some else ever going to post?

heres a translation of part of something the museum puts out. You want to read it. You want to give me cash, too.

The citizens of Cuquila founded the ÑU’U KUI ÑI Community Museum to help protect the values of their great culture and to increase awareness about it. Community members laid the first bricks in 1993, and after years of working together it was officially opened for business on March 21, 2001.

The museum tells the story of Cuquila from many different perspectives. You can see the goods made by the local artisans: they continue to make textiles and pottery the same way they have for centuries. There is an exhibit on the nearby prehispanic ruins, replete with a three dimensional model and various artefacts including ceramics, stone tools, and glyphs carved in rock. Everywhere you look you can find photos, models, and texts illustrating the many facets of local life, from their religion to their agriculture.

ok... now with the cash...

More on Photos

OK: Here´s the scoop-
we get 300 megs worth of photos on Blogger, so we can put a lot up, but it is a limited amount. Additionally, we have it set up so that there is one main account AmigosLCP, on webshots (www.webshots.com to log on and edit with the previously posted S/N and pass, or http://community.webshots.com/user/amigoslcp/ to view). Julia tells me that for every account there they allow 200 photos, so that means every town can put up 40 of their best photos there. Just start your own album, or if I have time, I'll set up albums for each town. For more space, we have set up seperate webshots account for each town. Again, just go to www.webshots.com to log on, and use one of the Usernames that follow (it will be obvious which one you should use).

The PASSWORD for EVERY ACCOUNT is: amigos

the accounts are as follows (you should get the idea pretty quickly):
CuquilaLCP-- that´s us! (viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/cuquilalcp/)
NatividadLCP (viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/natividadlcp/)
TequixtepecLCP (viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/tequixtepeclcp/)
HuamelulpanLCP (viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/huamelulpanlcp/)
AND
HuixtepecLCP (viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/huixtepeclcp/)

Note: Every time I try to upload more than 6 pictures at a time to webshots, the browser crashes... so don't try to push your luck.

Additionally, the volunteers in our town have one gmail account that we all check, so if you want to get in touch with us all, send a line to CuquilaLCP@gmail.com .
And I've now been working on this stuff for WAY too long, so I'm peacing. Be well.

Chris's and my host father's at the ruins (visit the Cuquila site to see more)

Language help

Hey, yall... this is seriously my last post of the day... I´m out of here to go check out the market, but here´s a link that might have some interesting resources for indigenous languages.

http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag2.htm

peace

pictures

Using the pictures function on here should be just as easy as anything else, but if it gets full I set up an account on www.webshots.com for pictures. Just go there and logon with Username: AmigosLCP Password: Oaxaca

we can then share a bunch of pictures. so yeah.

The first entry

I just started this site, sitting right now in Tlaxiaco. it appears we should also be able to upload photos onto here, but I´m going to see about whether there is a better site for fotographicos (more space and so forth) and then we can just post a big archive of them up there and link to them from here... or something. also, if anyone doesn´t have a gmail account (faster email with a gig or two of storage space) post your email address on here and i´ll send out an invite.

if you haven´t figured out how to post so far, you should have gotten an email about it by now, so if you did and if you followed the directions to get your account set up, go to http://www.blogspot.com, log on, and choose the Amigos LCP 2005 blog to edit, and create a new post. It shouldn´t be too hard to figure out. If you just want to read the site, it´s located at http://amigoslcp.blogspot.com. If you haven´t received an invite yet, email Abbie at amigos.oaxaca@gmail.com or me at TheMeekleEffect@gmail.com, and we can send one so you can get on it.

Hopefully this works out well- I generally think it´s pretty damn easy to use and I´ve had high school classes use it before, so it should be pretty useful. Once people get used to this one/if it looks like it´s going to be a good idea I can start another one in spanish for other people in the towns to use.

Salud