Christmas Guatemalan Stylee
Trip Start
Nov 25, 2006
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Trip End
Feb 17, 2007
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Antigua,
Guatemala
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Felt little depressed by this so went for a lie down, to be woken at midnight by the family, incredibly excited full of Christmas cheer and fun and hugs, we grabbed presents and became Santa Claus, delivering presents to their 2daughters families, who live next door and across the road. Cue and hour of present throwing and running around mayhem, and presents for me! Which was lovely of them...a cute bag, scarf and beautiful bracelet. So generous but also felt normal being with a family and very excited children who ripped open their presents and had the MP3 players glued in their ears. Then the eating and drinking began, which did include roast chicken, rice and a salad that contained marshmallows. Interesting. The family were lovely, when they say grace they always give thanks that I am with them then began plying me with about 6 different drinks...fruit punch, huge rum and cokes, wine, baileys, kahlua, whisky....you name it. Made it feel more like Christmas though and was most amazing and fun night, got to bed late or early depending on your point of view!
Christmas day, struggled slightly to get up then went to meet all the other volunteers about 15 in total at a beautiful restuarant. The owner, American guy called Bill had generously given us the restuarant for the day to cook our Christmas lunch and enjoy, which was really great! I cooked brownies, standard and helped cook huge Christmas dinner, we had roast potatoes and chicken and masses of veg, but no brussel sprouts...yay! We did secret santa between ourselves which was good, a nice day, kindof felt like Christmas, we were certainly stuffed full of food and drink and had presents but no Queens speech or Eastenders!
Boxing day...chilled but had comedy breakfast. The food they eat here on special occasions, called Tamals, potato and meet conncoction wrapped and cooked for hours in a potato leaf package, I thought I had escaped this but not so,the family had 'saved' me one for breakfast on boxing day. Interesting.
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Groovy Xmas
Cool Xmas banter Bex, but what's wrong with shorts and t-shirt on Christmas Eve?
Phew!
I am finally caught up, and I got your postcard yesterday - thank you very much. We have a new kitchen in Hammersmith with a fancy galss table and then this underneath bit. Anyway we had the idea of filling up the underneath with postcards as you can see them through the glass so yours is the first one on now. Your Xmas sounded amazing, although I think shorts and sandals at Christmas would be enough to throw anyone! We had a mental CHristmas with about a million people but I tihnk it ids a little bit calmer now - going back to Maidenhead again tonight for New Year (yes - Henley do) and I think all of my parents have gone somewhere else so home alone! Cannot wait to hear about your New Year - do you have plans yet? Anyway must do some work but I promise not to be neglectful of your blog any more (I like the ramblings). Lots of love, Hannah xxx