Otto’s mother and little brother are here. I met up with them for some wine and cheese (with promises of Pollo Campero despues - but it all fell through because it ended up being closed).
Rachid is going to be here until the beginning of September. We’ll hang out. He really wants to try the redbull at [...]
I went with Marty and Carlos to Escipulas this weekend for a tour. Escipulas is in the South-East corner of Guatemala and is a pilgrimage site for most of Central America. There is a statue of Christ called “Cristo Negro” (Black Christ) that is said to have miraculous healing powers for people of faith. This is taken [...]
So you´ll have to bear with me here, didn´t have time to explain. Check back for updates…
We chartered a boat ($12 a head) to see some of the pueblos that surround Lago Atitlan. There are 12 pueblos, and each one of them is named after one of the 12 apostles.
It was actually not the best [...]
I spent this past weekend in HueHuetenango. Jaime told me that the name of the area literally translates to “the place of old men”.
Rodalfo`s friend Carlos invited me to his house for a long weekend. HueHue is about 4.5 - 5 hours and 2 camionetas north of Antigua. The bus ride was awesome, I actually [...]
So Marty had a birthday party on Sunday.
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The party was a good time. Otto`s aunts and uncles took this as a perfect opportunity to sit down with the gringo and teach him a bunch of palabras malas. They didn`t forget to throw in a few hand signs too…
So welcome to the Cuchubal, a monthly event held to bring the family together… and take their money.
The Cuchubal is a very common game played in Guatemala. It`s a sort of round-robin event held with a group of usually around 10+ people (Otto`s family plays with about 30). Everybody throws down Q200 (about $26) and [...]
So this Sunday Ana Lucia (the real one) invited me to her house because her family was having a suprise birthday party for her great aunt. Her aunt was turning 87.
It was really cool, there were about 30+ people waiting, and when her aunt came through the front door we blasted music and started clapping [...]
So the family has changed a bit. Henry has since gone back to Canada. I am now staying with Miguel (Mike) and Russ and Judy.
Miguel is from Western Massachussets. He is down here to scope out plots of land where he can build his future house. He has sold his house in Mass and is [...]
So Rodalfo and his friend Christian invited me to go to Puerto San Jose this past weekend.
Puerto is a small beach town. Everybody seems to know eachother. Christian took me around town on the back of his motorcycle and was waving to pretty much every other person…
There was alot of time spent on the beach [...]
So on Wednesday I went on a field trip through the school. It was to a neighboring pueblo named San Mateo. We were visiting a very small elementry school that supported itself by demostrating how to make tortillas and other typical Guatemalan food to tourists.
We met in the park near my house a little before 8:00 [...]