Shoool es fin

This shall be the forth day in school and staying with a lovely family en Panajachel. Jabel Tinament being the name of the school and Maribel being the name of my one-on-one teacher. I´ve been blessed with a most patient teacher and student who learns from me the practice of drinking more water para su cuerpo-for her body. Better for health. We´ve talked about racism, politics, places around Guatemala, raising children, family, history, my friends, each other, alternative health practices, plus more and it all being in Español. She´s quite an awesome lady with teaching skills to be jealous of.

Our school: you enter through the fence with a small limp on the right foot. (In the mornings you are finished with breakfast in less than five minutes, brush teeth, make hair look like you have taken a shower in the last five days, put on new underwear, shorts, shirt, homework, rub arnica on fat foot, and rub Burt´s Bee´s bug spray-if you remember.)

Through the fence you walk after passing venders left and right under tin roof structures selling back-strap woven clothes, earings, necklaces, belts, shoes, bags, hats, dresses all with a bright techni-colored-indigenous-cultural-flare. There are tin roof structures where I have stopped, had a look and bought, not without thinking, for the sake of consuming, things with a most beautiful warmth to them you swear that they were made for you.

Walking through the blue painted fence, after lifting the latch, eating breakfast and saying goodbye to your family just two blocks away. Your limp takes you past more tin covered houses to your left, bamama and cacao trees, philodendron plants with leaves so explosive in size you could wear each one as a dress, you stare you walk and you sit in a plastic patio chair at a plastic table equipt with an umbrella and you say hola to your teacher.

Laughing and ill eqipt without my journal.

These pictures are of my teacher and I. The girls and I before hiking to a cave where sacrificial chicken roasts were made, our feet at the same place and Carlee Ann at the lake before going kayaking today. Which was a blast and I got drunk off of two beers (maybe more!)

Mua