Adventures in Yucatan, Mexico

Last Wednesday we had an incredible forum presented by one of our students who had spent 2 weeks with us boning up on his Spanish before travelling to Cuba. Itamar is from Israel, and many of his initial observations about life in the Yucatan were comparisons to his home country. One of the first things he noticed, when he came into his second day of class, was that "you guys have shawarma here!" It took us a few minutes, but in the end we discovered that what looked like " shawarma " to him, is known as " pastor " in Yucatan. Shawarma Pastor When we asked Itamar if he would be willing to share his perspectives of Yucatan (and of Israel) with the community, he was excited about the idea and immediately started putting together some ideas. "Food, landscape, and politics" are some of the topics that he wanted to focus on. Israel seems like another world (especially from Yucatan), but he wanted to share with people that these two very diff