hello all. life has been busy down here in central america. we arrived to xela about three weeks ago. xela is pronounced shay-la....short for xelaju (shay-la-who), the mayan name for the city of quetzaltelango, which is almost never referred to as quetzaltelango, except when you are new to the country and trying to get there and nobody knows what you are talking about. it´s a big, hectic, smog-filled city. reminds me a lot of all the other big, hectic, smog-filled cities in the developing world that i´ve seen, but poco a poco i am learning to appreciate the unique charm of what is actually a very unique city. xela was just named the capital of central america, but appartently this designation is without any consequence to anybody at all. if you´re a foreigner in xela, chances
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