El preterito, el preterito, el preterito…y trabajo. 22
…the weather was a little better today, only a spot downpour
Tricia
Mi primero día de escuela, pero estoy muy triste 8
What a sad day it is here. Rescuers are still finding bodies in numerous mudslides in different sections of the Inter-American highway. I believe the highest death toll is from the camioneta accident near Nahuala, which is just outside Xela. My school planned a trip to a neighboring town today which was […]
Pienso soy más vieja que mi abuela nueva 9
…we hit the tiny market in the park this morning to practice our español.
¿No hay un baños aquí? 18
…It was the derrumbamiento that kept me in Xela this afternoon.
¿Trabajo y escuela? Se siente como casa. 4
…torrential rain in this region all day and all night.
Un otra día ocupado en Xela 12
…started my new job with the clowns today.
Encontré tres escuelas, tamalitos perfectos y un trabajo 4
Wow, what a productive day! And I really got the hang of this grid, I think. I even went back to a place I had already been…on purpose! My first order of business was finding a school. I went to about 6 and narrowed it down to three. Celas […]
Estoy aquí, perdida y cansada 6
Anyway, I walked around for two hours in the wrong zona, on the wrong avenida looking for the wrong calle..
I promise, no more pictures of hiking gear 5
I was really hoping to post a picture of my headlamp, which I am convinced is somewhere so obvious and laughing at me. I’m not as coordinated as I’d like to be, and a headlamp frees my arms for balance and to push myself off the ground when I fall […]
Oh Stanley, any chance you’ll pack yourself, por favor? 2
Stanley was named in 2003 after a town in northwestern Tasmania, when a bus driver christened him with a tag he still proudly dangles from one of his loops. He’s been lost in Italy, gone missing in Greece, spent a lonely week without me in a garage in Sardinia, ridiculed […]