Today was our first day of stovebuilding, and it went really well! We split up into 5 groups and I was with Ross, Greg, and a new Guatemalan mason named David who is friends with Marvin (another local mason, who grew a beard and I barely recognized him!). The local masons build stoves for the Project all year round, and are far more skilled than any of us most of the time. We built in the same village as last year, but in a different spot, in the rural area near San Francisco el Alto. We are always to ask the [View Full Entry]

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Hola! It was quite the journey, but we have arrived! Yesterday we got to the airport in Montreal at 4 am, only to discover that our Montreal-Newark flight had been delayed which would cause us to miss our Newark-Guat connection. So, Continental Airways hooked us up with a flight with American Airlines, this time with a 3 hour stopover in Miami. I was thinking sweet, Florida, never been there.. and I had that "Welcome to Miami" song in my head all day. But our flight didnt leave until just past noon, so we had a lot of time to kill in [View Full Entry]

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What to write in a first entry? Right now I'm sitting in the lobby of the Econolodge in Montreal, where 13 of this year's group of Guatemala Stove Project volunteers are staying for the night before catching an early flight to Newark, NJ, getting into Guatemala city around 2 pm tomorrow (if all goes well). We have a 3 am wakeup call and will be taking a shuttle to the airport.. I can't wait to get on that plane.. it's ridiculous how long I've been saying I want to go back! We just got back from a fancy french steakhouse called [View Full Entry]

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