Las Farolas Hotel Antigua Guatemala

... makes me nervous just seeing them on there!<br><br>- Houses are painted cement blocks: earthquake proof.<br><br>- Speaking English is "cool," but does not mean you're even remotely intelligent.<br><br>- Tuesday is ladies night, the biggest weeknight in town, and drinks are only 2-3Q for women (approx $1-1.50 USD)<br><br>- Universidad is 6 years long! oof.<br><br>- Automobile honking is illegal in Antigua unless its an emergency.<br><br>- Corn is basically ...

... getting warmer and warmer. And soon we could feel the heat burning through the soles of our shoes. At one point of time, when we were at the top, we were 4 people standing in line one this very narrow and extremely hot path behind this guy taking a picture. And none of us liked the situation at all and just screamed at the guy to keep going! Then I saw it. The lava floating just 20-30 m from me! It was an amazing sight. But I just could not enjoy it very much ...

... the heat was unbearable. What was also unbelievable, was that we had to come back down the volcano in the dark with a few torches!!!!<br><br>We couldn´t believe how dangerous it was. We did the trek with Eric and Ricard and we all joked about how there´s no way you´d be able to do that in Europe.......there were no restrictions whatsoever.<br><br>So another 2 hours bus ride back to Antigua and a well deserved schnitzel and beer!!!<br><br><br>

... from red wine, we even coaxed my Mom into an ABBA song :) Thus was born our first cinco tortillas restaurant and we christened its walls with that phrase. We have vowed to return every Monday from here on out, except I will leave the camera at home haha.<br><br>So Utilities have become to be regarded as a luxury. We've lost power 3 times in 2 weeks. Water doesn't typically work after 10PM or so as Antigua shuts ...

... our hotel, we managed<br>to locate the general area where a bus would supposedly take us to<br>another general area where another bus would supposedly take us to<br>Antigua. Teddy had wanted to take a cab to the bus station, but Susan´s<br>Jew roots came out and she insisted they do it the hard way and bus it.<br>Once we got to the general area, however, there were about twenty<br>different buses going in twenty different directions with twenty<br>different little ...

... the program we visited homes again. Today's family was better off than yesterday's, not that this is saying much. Their horse is starving though and that is hard to see.<br><br>We played with the kids in the yard. Susan had a frisbee and Pat a tennis ball. Before we left we went back to watch the kids through the trees and they were still playing with the ball and having fun.<br><br>Back into the pickups to return to the vans and then CFCA for lunch.

... still poverty and old abuelitas with no shoes if you care to look. Lago de Coatepeque near Santa Ana was a fantastic day trip. A crater lake with gorgous flowery surroundings, cool water and bars and restaurants with decks out into the lake so it's easy to jump into when sleeping in the sun gets too strenous. Not sure about the soggy pizza in the hostal we stayed at though. Would definitely bring a picnic next time. Oh and even better, befriend someone with a lakeside mansion!

... culture of course! The first afternoon, we went to the Metro Centro. A very large mall filled with bad clothing with american prices. That evening we returned to the mall and watched a movie at the theatre. The next morning we tried to do better and caught a bus that we though would take us to a place called Zona Rosa that had museums and historical monuments and stuff. What we actually did was catch a bus that took us ...

Yesterday, we got up early in the morning and started packing for the next move. After a walk to the Cedeinfa office, we had a group devotional and praise and worship time. There were a lot of beautiful songs, but after 2 hours of Spanish, we were a little drained. We then went shopping in the mall close to the staff house until it was time for us to drive to YWAM. It is amazing how expensive everything is here. Our driver yesterday told us ...

... of teeth, didn´t seem to pronounce any consonants at all, so that "ya vamos a llegar" would become "a ao a ea". Despite this I did manage to discover that he didn´t like Catholics, for the reason that evolved from "I don´t know" to "they don´t practice what they preach" to "they´re all drunks". I think. I also encountered dozens of schoolchildren as I neared El Mozote, who politely answered every single one of my hellos and how-are-yous with "hola!" and "bien!". It actually got a ...