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May 20th 2005 - :
I miss you so much! I love to be able to travel, through your pics. Thank you for being such a beautiful and interesting friend! Come home you travelin' gal.
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elizabeth
on the way back to xela...we ran out of gas. william got gas when we first left, paid for a full tank...but we think that the gas attendant ripped him off...very common here. so while the guys went ... [more]
habitat for humanity
this is the house that i helped construct in xela...if anyone wants to build a house out of cement blocks...i can help now...
habitat for humanity
that is eduardo, eduardo, and don...somedays i shoveled and mixed cement all day...i have come to the conclusion that i donīt like doing that.
que linda...
i could not get her name right...couldnīt get the pronunciation to memory...but it is her family for which we are building the house...her and her brothers were always playing around the site and brin... [more]
day of pain parade
one of the local universities held a demonstration or parade about the history of genocide and suffering of the mayan population of guatemala...the majority of the parade focused on the TLC, or free-t... [more]
motorbikes....
many of the university students decorated motorbikes and circled the city all day in costume...really fun, but sort of sad...this university organization at one time was very radical...the members oft... [more]
children massacred
this float was particularly disturbing...depicting children killed at their school desks...i am not sure what they were referring to...whether it was literal or symbolic...but i do not doubt that it o... [more]
semana santa, santiago de atitlan
good friday...this is one of the carpets made in the streets of santiago...
carpet...
they spend all day making the carpets and later the procession passes over them, destroying the paintings.
waitng for the procession
this was in front of the main church, once it started it took about two hours for them to move 60 feet...the boys on the left were first seated on the steps of the church, beginning the procession.
the procession
coming from the main church...christ is inside that coffin and so are neon lights...there was a guy carrying the electrical cord behind them the whole time.
15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i cooked! my biggest dinner ever...in my hostal in xela...for my friend susan who left to go volunteer in el salvador...so sad.....
i graduated!
when i finished studying at juan sisay spanish school(my spanish is still horrible) i had a graduation and got a diploma...i am standing with olimpia, my senorita favorita.
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