A different world
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May 03, 2006
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Trip End
Aug 15, 2009
3 Cups of Guatemalan Coffee: You're Building a School !!, Guatemala
Monday, June 22, 2009
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The United States
My friend Amy Mikus returned to Guatemala to spend a week showing her dad and brother all the wonderful things she got to know about Guatemala last year. Amy spent a couple months working with us on the La Garrucha water project last summer, and like many visitors here, fell in LOVE with Guatemala.
I can't blame her... I mean, who can get enough of fresh hot corn tortillas, black beans and fresh cheese!?!
(The fresh cheese part MAY have something to do with the reason I seem to run into so many Wisconsinites down here, I don't know)
Anyway, we had a rousing rambling raucous time. They visited the school site in El Zapote for a few days and helped us level the ground to be able to lay the floor tiles. Currently, the floor is being finished and the roof is about to be put on. Yes, it sounds strange that we would lay the floor BEFORE putting the roof on...
but the mayor was not going to be able to send his part of the roofing materials until later this week...
and the community was adamant about NOT STOPPING the construction work, but rather PLUGGING ON ahead doing as best they can
even though it's much harder to work in the rain!!
The village had fun mingling with even more "gringos" as we're called here, and I almost lined Amy's brother Matt up for a job teaching English in the new school, since he had such a great time with the kids exchanging English and Spanish vocab words -- he improved his Spanish and they learned a bunch of English!
Come on down Matt, they're waiting for you!
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