Hotel Royal Palace Guatemala City

... changes lives. It changes the lives of the families we meet and it changes the lives of the volunteers who build.<br><br>Most of us began to think of home as we were driving to the airport this morning. What may be waiting for us back in the States. Meetings, appointments, returning phone messages.....and most importantly.....our families.<br><br>One thing I realize while spending time in Central America is that many ...

Depois do ordil que passei na fronteira pensei que tudo iria melhorar.<br>Que erro o meu. No Sabado a noite um grupo de amigos saimos para<br>beber umas cervejinhas. O ambiente da cidade e muito legal.<br>Me lembra um pouco Ouro Preto. Mas voltando ao assunto.<br>Ficamos ate as duas da manha bebendo. Voltamos a pe para<br>o albergue e quando chegamos meu caddo estava na porta do hotel.<br>Pensei duas da manha nao terei problema algum.<br ...

... and out for coffee and a cake at 7:30, then onto internet t catch up.<br>We booked a 14:00hr trip to the volcano - Volcan de Pacaya, it gets back about 21:30 so must be some trip.<br>About a dozen of us crammed into a gutless mini bus fot the 25 Km drive to the volcano site.<br><br>At the site we were met by a local guide and set of to walk 4 km up the volcano starting at about ...

... a la grande activite organisee chaque jour et jouer, tout simplement. Pendant 5 semaines, j'ai prete main forte aux 5 enseignantes qui y travaillent à plein temps et ai donné des cours d'anglais aux enfants avec une autre volontaiore venue des Pays'bas. grace a qui j'ai pu pratiquer le neerlandais ! PLus d'info et de photos a ce sujet dans la prochaine edition!

... with drug running gangs. We are in the hotel by 7 pm and the doors are locked and widows barred. They take care of the tourists. We moved on to Honduras and have been diving on Bay of Islands. Our last dive was at night and very lovely looking at lobsters, sleeping fish and bioluminescence. We sat on the ocean floor will our torches out and waved our hands as stings of pearls appeared. Coming back in the moonlight was very special ...

The central park at Antigua its a common place for travelers to gather and chat. The fountain that was recently restored is around 15 feet tall and the greatest view is of the church in one side, from witch i give you a couple of pictures.

... that picks us up at the airport. And go straight to bed. Our (expensive for latin america) dorm room is pretty home made without real walls and homemade beds. There´s certainly no privacy. We are also directly over a flight path, or we suspect the whole city is, i don´t think they have the same protests as Heathrow does, and the loudest nightclub you have ever heard. The bass was in my bed. We ...

... mañana tomamos el shuttle al Tikal, había llovido toda la noche y al llegar al sitio no había ni un sólo bicho, encontramos a un coatí inofensivo y Leyva se sacó una foto para presumir que no teme a las bestias selváticas, toda el agua acumulada en la copa de los arboles hacía parecer que caía un aguacero, estabamos hechos sopa pero recorrimos todas las pirámides y dió tiempo de sacar videos de alta definición(perdidos para siempre) de ...

... I think on the way out someone in Guatemala had taken the wrong coupon out - this was the really the extent of our complications all trip. Back in Guatemala City & the ritual giving of Liz's travel clothes to the housekeepers and then we broke one of rules - we couldn't resist going into an Applebee's we stumbled upon. A real American TGIF look alike in Guatemala - it was just like in Florida (& the ...

... the Mayas. But that was back before a traveler could settle in and teach English whenever he found a place he liked, back before anybody really cared too much about ESL, certainly not the de rigeur international mania it is now, Pidgin English a badge to be worn proudly on the lapel of any would-be wannabe man/woman-of-the-world. Back then you had to actually DO something to make money, like work with the Peace Corps. But that was commitment ...