Month: April 2005

  • En Mexico

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    No tengo mi dicionario, etonces hoy voy a escribir solamente ingles. I left San Pedro yesterday and started my trek north to Mexico City. Yesterday morning as I got ready to leave I thought I might go to Chichicastenango for the world famous market. But it turns out I was off by a day and…

  • Mas tarea

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    ¡Hola! Hoy es Lunes y estoy volvo para mas tarea. Tengo various cosas para escribir hoy, etonces no tengo un titulo mejor. Aventura Este fin de semana, fuimos arriba en las montañas para visitar un “zipline”. ¡Fui muy divertido! Las nubes rodearon las montañas, etonces la cuerda desaparací en las nubes, y yo tambien. En…

  • Mi semana

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    Extrañé dos dis para escribir por que fui enfermo. Hasta ahora no tuve nada dolores de estomago, pero aqui en San Pedro, supuestamente todos los gringos son enfermo uno vez. Ne se por que. Mi familia fue bueno para mí. Dio yo comida buena por mi estomago, y medicina tambien. Mi madre dijo la medicina…

  • Mi fin de semana

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    Spanish speakers… put on your thinking caps. This entry will be using a fair amount of imperfect tense, because it is doing double duty as a homework assignment. If you don’t remember how to decode it, just strip off terminations like -ían and -aban to get back to the root verb. Ready? Here we go!…

  • Vida en San Pedro

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    (Note: English translation is below.) ¡Ahora, ese diario tiene dos idiomas, español e ingles! Estoy muy contento con mi decisión para viajar a San Pedro. Ese ciudad está en la mitad entre San Andés y Xela. No es desmasiado poqueño, y tambien no es desmasiado grande. San Pedro me recuerda de San Andrés por que…

  • Weekend in Monterico

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    As predicted in my last post, I decided to ditch Xela and find someplace else to study for the next two weeks. Because I liked Lake Atitlan so much, and because I am trying to meet up with Ben from Planet Online to explore the possibility of working for them for a few months, I…

  • Life in Xela

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    I’ve had a few days to settle in to Xela now, so here’s some info about life here. Xela is Guatemala’s second biggest city, but it is a distant second to Guatemala City, with only 120,000 residents. It has several universities, so it is rumored to have the benefits of a university town. I did…

  • Lake Atitlan

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    This morning I arrived in Xela, and have found my Spanish school, and the house where I will be staying. It is not as opulent as my last house, but mi madre seems much more communicative, so hopefully I’ll feel a little more at home here, and a little less like a foreigner. As an…

  • More Guatemala Observations

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    Some more random observations about Guatemala… Guns People say Americans are crazy gun toting cowbows, but the real Americans who love their guns are the Central Americans of Guatemala. I have never seen so many guns as I have here. That includes growing up in a working class, rural city in the US. You see…

  • Antigua

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    I got to Antigual yesterday afternoon after a long bus ride most of the way aross Guatemala. From Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City it was pretty comfortable. We were on a Mercedes bus which dated to the 80’s, judging by the decor. I invented another of my somewhat random travel tips. (You might remember the…