La Riviera Atitlan Hotel Panajachel

... We followed her up the hill to our house, where we met
our other sister Anna-Maria, our grandfather Alex, and our madre Maria.
The house is pretty nice, and we each get our own rooms (there's also a
South African dude named Alan staying with us). The family couldn't be
nicer, and we are really excited to begin Spanish school tomorrow (we
certainly need it). So, all in all, we definitely made the best of our
day. And as for what's to come... bring it on!

... br>from Bob and Freida Cox, we were able to provide materials so that the
young adults with Global Challenge Expeditions (Christian Mission group
from South Africa ) could build a home for Ana and her four children.
Thank you so much for your donations and support!!


Ana’s new home has a new tin roof, one large room in the back (able to fit two beds), a toilet and a simple shower, underground septic
tank, a space for a ...

... part in the ceremony where a boy comes in, tips San Simon's throne back, and then the person asking for the blessing pours a bottle of sugar cane liquor into is mouth. Fascinating.

3. I am leaving Sunday to go to the women's weaving cooperative. I will be gone about a week, and then I will return here to Xela to teach English at the school for a month, while I continue to take more Spanish class. I think it's a good plan. Xela really has a hold on me, it's tempting to ...

... mother, Sara, agreed that this is a great remedy. I take 12-15 drops in water or juice and force it down; two doses yesterday and one this morning. But, ta-daa, I feel better today! Yesterday was quite boring, I cannot understand how one could spend more than 4 hours watching TV, but I couldn't do much except groan and stay in the fetal position. I watched "Scoop" (Woody Allen), "Dangerous Minds", ProjectRunway, National Geographic Special on ...

... this before. Will and I caught up with Juan, James, Derek and George and were told by one of the guides that we had only 30 mins left of walking up hill and then we were done for the day. It was only 10 am and we had been walking for 3 hours. Energised that we were about to commence the last leg of our journey we spritely walked up the hill and found the others who had stopped because Kirsty had taken a nasty fall and had grazed her legs. Thankfully it was all superficial ...

... the ferry, and it started raining like crazy.

A et M were watching that super mega cloud from Panajachel, and were laughing at the thought that I was there at that precise moment.

So I jumped on another public ferry, with 35 people on this 15 people max boat. Let me say that it smelled really nice, and that these people were not speaking Spanish at all.

Going tomorrow on a 7-8 hours drive back to Mexico....

... Freida's house, dropping my things at Sara's house, I went with Alicia down to the lake. It was stunning. As I remember it (Jan '07). Alicia had to go to work--bartend at Chapiteau, so I was invited to soak in Freida's natural hot-spring heated hot tub, melting away my muscle tension. We went out stopping briefly to see her friends play a gig at Pana Rock, and then to Chapiteau for a drink, which Alicia made for us.

Today, I strolled around ...

... written about the boys from the Hogar, and now I am assistant teaching the 4th grade at las Rosas. (Unfortunately for me, most of the boys I worked with before school started are in the 5th grade... but 4th grade is suiting me fine! Also, I have to chapperone 6 of the Hogar boys to school and back every day, so at least I get to see them a bit still!)

ANYWHO.... Quetzal Trekkers gives all their proceeds to the school and the Hogar, not to mention, they take a ...

... in the final by Bolivia... a subject that still had him a little sore. However to ease the pain of the story he whipped off the dusty cover in the reception area of his xylophone and gave us a quick do, rah, me with a tap of his fingers and his nerves seemed to settle a little.
It became apparent that the don was quite a man of the town and had his fingers (when they were not knocking out a few dusty notes) where in quite a few pies one of them being a restaurant as well just around ...

... less than a metre deep, yet it is surrounded by walls 4.5m thick.







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The ascent to the top of Templo V was quite a terrifying experience – climbing an almost sheer vertical rickety wooden ladder (with no surrounding cage should we lean back too far and plummet to our deaths) to the very top ledge (which itself was only around 40cm wide with nothing preventing us from ...