{"id":369,"date":"2010-09-15T18:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T00:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/?p=369"},"modified":"2010-09-15T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T00:32:36","slug":"nunca-pedir-un-mojito-en-cafe-arabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/nunca-pedir-un-mojito-en-cafe-arabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunca pedir un mojito en Caf\u00e9 Arabe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Un chico precioso<\/p><\/div>\n

Another great day of school.\u00a0 Finished up the past and moved into the future, which is m\u00e1s m\u00e1s<\/em> facil.\u00a0 Today is a national holiday, but\u00a0I still had class.\u00a0 When he wasn\u00b4t teaching me maldiciones<\/em>, Carlos was getting into some heavy stuff about Guatemalan politics, specifically about the characters of their leaders and how the government buys votes with McDonald\u00b4s and Pollo Campero<\/em>.\u00a0 For homework I translated a few paragraphs about Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum, a Mayan guerilla who won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 90s defending native women\u00b4s rights who used the dough to set up a foundation<\/a> that promoted these initiatives worldwide.\u00a0 She\u00a0recently fell from grace amongst the Mayans after taking a cushy vanity\u00a0job with the government.\u00a0\u00a0 We also\u00a0discussed various corrupt presidents and how the Maya have no representation in the governing of Guatemala.\u00a0 After he corrected my translation, Carlos started a political discussion that was interesting for the most part.\u00a0\u00a0Of course after awhile my eyes glazed over, right about the\u00a0time he began talking about the military.\u00a0 And\u00a0it wasn\u00b4t from an overload of\u00a0Spanish, I would have stared blankly ahead, dreaming about tamalitos<\/em>, if he was speaking in English.\u00a0 Couldn\u00b4t we talk about art or something?<\/p>\n

Also had a nice evening last night with some of mis compa\u00f1eros<\/em> from Casa Do\u00f1a Mercedes.\u00a0 We walked through the crowded park and decided to go to El Balc\u00f3n to watch the action below\u00a0from\u00a0an outdoor terrace\u00a0rather than get jostled every second by could-be pickpockets.\u00a0 I have never been to a country where every second person tries to instill the fear of everything in everyone.\u00a0 Don\u00b4t carry a bag.\u00a0 Don\u00b4t walk alone at 7:32 pm.\u00a0 Roll up some quetzales<\/em> into a ball and keep it in your fist and don\u00b4t open your hand until you absolutely need to buy something.\u00a0 Granted, there is a lot of crazy crime here and I am not even going to post the things I have been reading in the newspaper, and I am super cautious and not generally worried, but it does get a little intense when locals, students, teachers, shopkeepers, gatos y perros<\/em>, all keep telling you the same thing.<\/p>\n

After El Balc\u00f3n, we went to Caf\u00e9 Arabe to meet the Guatemalan boyfriend of one of the\u00a0chicas<\/em> in our group.\u00a0 Thought I\u00b4d try a mojito, I mean, how wrong could they possibly get it?\u00a0 Pretty damn\u00a0wrong.\u00a0 It looked like something you\u00b4d be served on St. Patrick\u00b4s Day.\u00a0 The concoction was kelly green with a few leaves floating on top.\u00a0 Three of us ordered it and I was the first to try it.\u00a0 It was a glass of creme de menthe with a splash of soda and some random shrubbery.\u00a0 I figured that was a sign to go home and finish my homework, which I wisely did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u00b4m getting a little hungry\u00a0now and the sky just opened up for the first time in about three days.\u00a0 I\u00b4ll have to make a mad\u00a0dash across the courtyard\u00a0to the kitchen to\u00a0cook dinner.\u00a0 \u00a0If the rain keeps up like this, I\u00b4m skipping\u00a0salsa again tonight.\u00a0 Ronaldo is going to KILL me.\u00a0 Oh well, there\u00b4s always next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carlos taught me how to say \u00a8dickface\u00a8 today…and I didn\u00b4t even have to ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studying-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}