For our last Saturday venture with Guatemalensis, we hiked up to Chicabal. This lake is in a volcanic crater, so you have to hike up to the top to see it, then down into the crater to get a closer look. Definitely a steep walk, both coming and going, but well worth it! What a...
Last Saturday we had another outing with Nora and Rolando, the directors of Guatemalensis (our school). We hiked up and around the dormant volcano of Santa Maria. On the other side is a fantastic lookout where you can see Santiaguito, an active volcano. No, there wasn’t lava spewing out everywhere (although we do think that...
Today is Dave’s birthday, and we celebrated with a fiesta on the rooftop of GSS (our school). What a great time! Rolando and Nora, the school directors, threw a fantastic barbecue in true Guatemalan fashion. We had homemade guacamole and homemade salsa, as well as potatoes, steaks and tortillas hot off the grill. What a...
So we wanted to give you a peek of what our day-to-day life is like here in Xela, Guatemala. We’ve been having so much fun being exposed to this new culture and being immersed in the language. We live with the Gonzalez family: Rosy & Jorge and their three boys. They love to watch “futbol”...
We took our first field trip on Saturday to hot springs in the mountains of Guatemala. We were the only two students who decided to participate in this outing, so it was just us and Nora, one of the directors for the school. This trip proved to be interesting in many ways. First of all,...
The past six days have been a whirlwind of activity and change in our life. We cruised into Abbeville on Thursday night and barely stopped to breathe between then and when we left for Atlanta on Sunday morning. The wedding weekend was a blessing for us… we were overjoyed to celebrate in the marriage of...
