• Sounds like a really deep question, right? But in this case, it was esay. With help from my parents and grandparents, I traded in my complicated itinerary home for a simple e-ticket on American Airlines from Guatemala City to San…

  • Over this year, some people have asked me, “Why do you seek to work for an international organization when there are so many problems that need to be solved inside the US?” It is a good question, and until Hurricane…

  • Just a quick blog entry so that I don’t forget to write down something funny that happened the other day… At home, I was served a dish which was very close to risotto, one of my favorite dishes of all…

  • Hoy he tratado una vez mas de encontrar un mecánico de motores dieseles. Quiero aprender las cosas principales que necesito aprobar antes llamo un mecánico verdadero, y las cosas que puedo reparar facílmente con solamente mis manos y mente. Cuando…

  • I flew to Cancun using Airtech for just $250 round trip. What a deal! The only thing you have to do to get such a good price is not have any fixed plans and be willing to put up with…

  • Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The good news is I didn’t get hurt, and they didn’t get very much from me. I went for a day trip to Santiago Atitlan yesterday. It is an easy trip; you…

  • This weekend one of Paulina’s daughters (Paulina is mi abuela or grandmother, here) flew to Canada for a 4 month internship. She will be working with a program in Saskatchewan that provides services to rural communities. She’s pretty good at…

  • An ex-coworker made an interesting survey of HTTP headers. During which he found my own comments on apparent typos in HTTP headers. Hi Andrew! It’s good to see you are still hacking!

  • Upon re-reading my own words, not even I could believe myself. How could the showers possibly be that scary? So I decided I should show you: I talked to a tall guy from Australia, who says that he gets shocks…

  • I’ve been working here in San Pedro for two weeks now, and I owe people an update on what I’m up to here. The first week, I slept in a hotel and ate at the house of my coworker’s parents.…