Sheri left Salt Lake City late Tuesday night on a flight to Los Angeles, and after a two hour layover she took a redeye flight that arrived in Guatemala City at 4:30 AM Wednesday. I was at the airport waiting for her with the taxi cab driver who had picked me up in Antigua at […]
My last week in Xela went by fast, as last weeks do. Monday was spent walking all over over the place with two ladies from Pop Wuj looking for party supplies, we were planning the quarterly birthday party for the kids at the Guardería Daycare Center. We dipped in and out of makeshift booth after […]
My Spanish language learning school Pop Wuj (www.pop-wuj.org) was founded in 1992 by five people who wanted to create something different than the for-profit schools that began to proliferate at that time. At last count there were 43 Spanish language schools here in Xela, Guatemala, but Pop Wuj may be the only non-profit cooperative run […]
I just completed my second week here in Guatemala, and I would like to begin this entry by sharing a few stories about my experiences here in Xela. It is hard to know for certain what a place is like until you actually visit it, and in my own life there have been times that […]
He estado en Guatemala solo siete días pero ya tengo una buen amiga nueva. Ella se llama Cosi. El primer dia llegué a la casa de mi familia anfitrión muy tarde, casi las once de la noche. Cosi el perro estuvo aquí y despierta para me saluda. Nuestro amistad comenzó cuando Cosi saltó sobre mi […]