Good-Bye Guatemala

This is from our farewell evening at El Cuartito. What a fun group. I will miss you all! 

Karaoke

Thursday night there is Karaoke at El Cuartito. No, I did not sing!! But Kir did!!

My friends signing at El Cuartito. I wish you could see it better!

Counting down...

I have a little lapse in my blogging... no real excuses, just distracted I guess. We are on our final week here. The last 2 have been very interesting!

School has been great!

I was really sick about a week and half ago.

I let it go for about 4 or so days and finally last Tuesday, when I felt worse and not better, I decided I needed to go to the doctors. So I told the mom at my house, Sandy, and she said if I wanted that she had good friends that run a hospital and she would bring me to see them. And of course I took her up on it! I feel VERY fortunate. She brought me to their hospital (or clinic) and her friend saw me right away. He also had most of the medecine I needed there, which he gave me, and when I asked him at the end how much I owed...... GRATIS!!! (free!!) I had to go buy 1 thing which cost me under $2. Wow!! I can not tell you happy I was to have medicine and especially for free. And to have someone to take me to the hospital! I am still not exactly sure what I had, but I lost my voice and felt really week

 and then started to feel conjested and have a bit of a cough (which the cough is still hanging out so far!) About an hour after starting my medicine I started to feel better... slowly! Needless to say I didn`t do anything for almost 4 days, and didn`t even have the energy to study! But I am back!.... mostly!

Last week was Samana Santa which is a pretty big deal here in Guatemala. Since I felt better, I went to Monterrico with my friend Rudy, Emily, and Kirsti. It was nice to see the coast, but it was a bit of a nutty trip. I wish we could have stayed longer. Worth it...? For me yes. Que Calor!!!! 

Dang it was hot there!! We got in in the evening and left the next day early afternoon. It was kinda like spring break... not totally my thing, but the company was more than good. The ride back was a bit long... 9.5 hours. Although we made a lot of pit stops, hit some traffic, and the car broke down at one point. ------So we hit some bumps and the car just shut off. 

So Rudy popped the hood and started looking around. He found that a fuse had blown and after tinkering for a bit, replaced the fuse with a paperclip...... which actually worked and we were able to drive to the next town to purchase a fuse. Afterwhich we nicknamed him McGiver.



Easter Sunday I spent with Emily and Kirsti. We spent the day in Xela trying to find something to do. We ended up seeing a small procession and then running across a re-enactment of Christ`s Crucifiction which ended up being pretty interesting.







The crucificion




Christ being laid in the tomb




Christ resurrected



Me and Emily in a Cemetery