Roses and Thorns
Rose: The friends I’ve made who are becoming more and more my family everyday! Last night we had an amazing dinner of stir-fried vegetable and rice cooked in a peanut sauce. Yum!
Thorn: Latin American inefficiency (Example: I was riding the bus with my host sister and rather than walking one block, she decided to wait the extra ten minutes until the bus passed right next to our house)
Rose: The avocados and mangos that are available for cheap and in plenty
Thorn: The national shortage of small change. The bank insists on giving money in Q100 bills (about equal to $13), but its almost impossible to use these bills to buy anything because nobody has enough change.
Rose: My host family. I love my living situation!
Thorn: The breakfast I was served last Sat. morning of white wonderbread type bread lathered in mayonnaise with a hotdog in between. WACADA! (Yuck in Spanish)
Rose: Latin American hospitality, in many ways similar to southern hospitality. Everyone I’ve interviewed has been so gracious, patient and amiable. Some have even sent me home with gifts, for example when I went to that finca on Tues. they gave me like 24 organic bananas…. Can you say delicious?
Thorn: The ever-present pollution, trash and dust… sometimes its really horrible
Rose: Finding my favorite Guatemalan food, Chile Rellenos, for lunch when I was in Colomba. A church was selling them to raise money and they were so good!
Thorn: I offered to help do some translating for these people who are trying to start a non-profit organization. They have absolutely no idea how grants work, they think that if they send an e-mail money from the U.S. will just be sent to them. Every time I’ve tried to explain it to them, they have no real interest in listening. I guess sometimes you just have to learn it the hard way.
Rose: Visiting the Fuentes Gorginas again, my favorite hotsprings that always leaves me completely relaxed.
Thorn: The four small yapper-dogs who live right outside my wind and think the 3 a.m. is an acceptable time to start barking. All I have to say is that they’re lucky I have restraint.
Thorn: Latin American inefficiency (Example: I was riding the bus with my host sister and rather than walking one block, she decided to wait the extra ten minutes until the bus passed right next to our house)
Rose: The avocados and mangos that are available for cheap and in plenty
Thorn: The national shortage of small change. The bank insists on giving money in Q100 bills (about equal to $13), but its almost impossible to use these bills to buy anything because nobody has enough change.
Rose: My host family. I love my living situation!
Thorn: The breakfast I was served last Sat. morning of white wonderbread type bread lathered in mayonnaise with a hotdog in between. WACADA! (Yuck in Spanish)
Rose: Latin American hospitality, in many ways similar to southern hospitality. Everyone I’ve interviewed has been so gracious, patient and amiable. Some have even sent me home with gifts, for example when I went to that finca on Tues. they gave me like 24 organic bananas…. Can you say delicious?
Thorn: The ever-present pollution, trash and dust… sometimes its really horrible
Rose: Finding my favorite Guatemalan food, Chile Rellenos, for lunch when I was in Colomba. A church was selling them to raise money and they were so good!
Thorn: I offered to help do some translating for these people who are trying to start a non-profit organization. They have absolutely no idea how grants work, they think that if they send an e-mail money from the U.S. will just be sent to them. Every time I’ve tried to explain it to them, they have no real interest in listening. I guess sometimes you just have to learn it the hard way.
Rose: Visiting the Fuentes Gorginas again, my favorite hotsprings that always leaves me completely relaxed.
Thorn: The four small yapper-dogs who live right outside my wind and think the 3 a.m. is an acceptable time to start barking. All I have to say is that they’re lucky I have restraint.
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