We made a few faux pas, but hey, it was our first time throwing a party in Guatemala! First, one of the families arrived about ninety minutes late, which isn't unusual for Guatemala. The problem is that everybody else refused to start the party until they got there. So we sat and awkwardly looked at each other for a significant amount of time. I can't believe in a country where it is totally normal to be an hour late, that people wait for each other, but they apparently do.
We finally convinced the families there to eat some chips, but we had them serve themselves, which my host mother told me soon after was very shameful. It's important to always serve your guests. Oops.
When the last family arrived, we learned that they wouldn't eat until we had done the pinata. Thank goodness we had a pinata, two actually. So, we were finally able to start the party. It was about two hours later than expected, but we each said something nice to our host families and they said something nice to us. Then we did the pinata, finally ate the very cold pizza, and relaxed.
Our reason for wanting to have a pizza party was to do something nice, simple, and informal. It didn't exactly turn out that way because Guatemalans don't like those type of parties. Lesson learned. I think that our families at least know we were grateful for their hospitality and that was the whole point, anyway. Plus we have some good stories.
Here is a picture of all the guests at our party!
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