This past Tuesday, Stella, Karla, Karla`s friend Luzbin, and I went to Monterico. It`s a beach on the Pacific side of Guatemala.
The beaches in Guatemala are a bit different, they have volcanic black sand… and the waves are ridiculous. I went in to swim for a bit. On about the fourth wave or so, for about 2 seconds I literally [...]
So Friday was Charlie`s last day at Familias de Esperanza. We met up for drinks later that night.
And I guess even without the full blown beard I`ve managed to maintain my scrubby bum-like appearance. While we were walking around, we saw a group of volunteers that had helped at the organization for a week or [...]
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 the partying did not end with the wedding. On Sunday, Marti, Carlos and I, along with the majority (it seems, but I have a feeling this is not the case) of Otto´s family went to Marti´s sisters house for a party. This included massive amounts of food, fireworks, and alot of questions for the [...]
So I went back to Guatemala city (via comioneta/”chicken bus”) for the weekend. To my dismay, upon arriving, Marti informed me that I would be getting a haircut with her son Giovanni on Saturday. Rather than turning down the offer, I felt that it was maybe necessary to tame the twirlygigs that had begun to [...]
Otto´s uncle Rodolfo and his friend Christian drove Otto and I to Antigua two nights in a row in order to scope out the different Spanish schools.
I think that looking for spanish schools seemed like a good excuse for Rodolfo and Christian to show us around Antigua. By this I mean eating massive amounts of food, spending [...]