http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/RachelGood/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from RachelGood en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:58:28 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:58:28 +0000 Ok sorry it's been 9 days since I've written my last blog entry I'm kind of bad at this whole keeping in touch with the outside world thing. Also I'm not entirely sure what is happening to all my time here because it is seeming to be disappearing at warp speeds. I am definitely not ready to return to real life. First order of business there is this super popular song here that blares out of 97 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-416936.html So after about 4 weeks of living in Guatemala and experiencing all the great things this country has to offer I have decided someone needs to document their traffic laws. That way any new drivers in Guatemala can have some sort of basis to go off of when learning to drive and foreign drivers can get accustomed to the cultural differences. 1. honk to tell other drivers to get out of the way2. ho http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-413511.html The power is currently out here so I am entertaining myself by writing a blog entry in a word document and then I will post it in the blog when if the power comes back on. It goes out fairly often here randomly and without warning which makes life kind of inconvenient. But no biggie there are plenty of fun things to do in the dark like light candles and run into things not necessarily in http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-412282.html The internet connection here seriously kills my soul. I feel like the Mayan gods of technology are working against me very diligently. In other news I discovered a bakery today called Xelapan and I can now safely say that I will return to the US weighing at least 93982 pounds. I got an eclair for the equivalent of about 40 cents and proceeded to bathe myself in powdered sugar. SO GOOD. These past http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/blog-410280.html Put up some new pictures on httpguatemalatrip2009.shutterfly.com and it took significantly fewer hours than it did the first time. go internetThis past week has gone by very quickly. I've been here almost 2 weeks now and it seems to be flying by. I'm pretty much 14 done with my trip Madness. WedFri of last week was spent stove building with a mission group from Colorado which I really e http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-408839.html I have been slacking on updating but here is my attempt to write what I've been doing the last few daysThurs Hilda and I went to two more communities though they are all starting to run together at this point. The first one we went to was up in the mountains and they spoke the Mayan language Mam which Hilda doesn't speak so she brought a translator. They spoke a little bit of spanish but n http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-406695.html I have been slacking with actually writing words in this blog but I spent like 4 hours today uploading pictures on this slow internet so here they are httpguatemalatrip2009.shutterfly.com http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-405981.html I got my wireless to connect Weirdly enough if you enter a sign before the password when trying to connect to wireless it will make it work. Hurrah for Jessie's internet and google So this morning I woke up at 846 which is by far the earliest I've woken up in approximately 39028493 years. It wasn't even that impressive because I'm still on hometime meaning it was 1046 in my head but th http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-405127.html Dear worldI made it to Guatemala Today was my first full day and it's been very eventful so far. Jessie the other girl who is interning for HSP with me and I flew into Guatemala City yesterday afternoon and were picked up by a few people from the program who found us in the airport by writing our names on notebook paper. It made me feel cool. We took a van from Guatemala City to Queztaltenango http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/Quetzaltenango-/blog-405064.html