The next day don Juan came to take Alejos and I to his house in Xaxmoxán. I came as a last-minute addition but the purpose of the trip—as a pilot—was for urban University students to learn what life is like for rural Guatemalans. Alejos is a communications student, from what´s left of the middle class, and it was his first trip to the Quiché. Don Juan took us to his cornfield where we gathered dry corn.