Tag: Antigua
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Rockin’ Guat 2009: Episode 10
SUBJUNCTIVE, SANTO DOMINGO, AND SPANGLISH So we’ve been in Antigua now for about two weeks. Today we walked over to Santo Domingo, a super super nice hotel and villa. We just walked right in and explored the ridiculously beautiful scenery. There were hanging gardens and fountains at every corner and tropical birds nesting. We wondered…
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Rockin’ Guat 2009: Episode 9
HIKING, HOT SPOTS, AND HARDCORE PATRIOTISM Hey all, we’ve been in Antigua for the week helping Hector and wandering the town. We connected with Gerber, mom’s friend down here whom I will hopefully be accompanying to the jungle in northern Guatemala sometime during this trip. Yesterday we visited a school where Gerber’s sister is the…
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Rockin’ Guat 2009: Episode 8.5
TIME, TUK TUKS, AND TACO BELL Since the last post was getting kind of long, I didn’t get a chance to add some other things we’ve discovered while living in Guatemala. First, the concept of time. Very different from that in the States. Americans are very gogogo–on the clock and always moving. But life in…