🎥 Long Way Home, Comalapa

August 22, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

August 16-21, 2015 A week with the organization Long Way Home Organization in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala. /// Une semaine avec l’ONG Long Way Home à San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala.

🇺🇸 Ultima semana en Xela

August 17, 2015.Reading time 12 minutes.

Week five sneaked up on us, and we decided Julien would benefit from another week of Spanish classes, also giving me time to make a rough plan of the rest of our travels through Guatemala. And so started our fifth and final week in Quetzaltenango. Chicken tenders, brocoli, and mashed potatoes. Julien remembers Christy’s homemade […]

🇺🇸 Cuarta semana en Quetzaltenango

August 10, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

(Fourth week in Quetzaltenango) Week four in Xela, and still enjoying new foods! This pasta, tortilla, zucchini combo was accompanied by very tasty chicken stomach. “Chinese” noodles Lighting at Barrista Café Finding the Reunion Island Open air kiosk We were walking home one evening (westward) and it was curious that sunlight was coming from behind […]

🇺🇸 Chilling on all accounts

August 10, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

August 10, 2015 Chilling on all accounts The other day a newspaper headline caught my eye “16-year-old camioneta (bus) driver shot just outside Chimaltenango”. On top of the news itself which was quite disturbing, this was extra alarming for us as it was a route we would regularly travel through; however, the realization that there […]

🎥 Fuentes Georginas

August 9, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

August 8, 2015 Fieldtrip to the Fuentes Georginas hot springs near Quetzaltenango. /// Excursion aux thermes des Fuentes Georginas, proches de Quetzaltenango.

🇺🇸 Safety procedure

August 6, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

August 6, 2015 Safety procedure After the second mini-quake we felt in Xela (estimated to be about 5.5 by our host-father), I asked the family if there were any sort of safety procedure or plan in place should a substantial earthquake hit. I was assured that because our humble abode was just one floor and […]

🇺🇸 Gullible gringos

August 4, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

August 4, 2015 Gullible gringos At the 30 minute recess at school, Julien and I crossed the street to buy a couple of bananas. We asked the woman at the market how much the bananas were, and she said 1Q apiece, about 13 cents. We have her 2Q for two bananas and she sighed and […]

🎥 Volcan Tajumulco

August 3, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

August 1-2, 2015 Trek with Quetzaltrekkers to the top of volcan Tajumulco in Guatemala, the highest point of central america (4220m). /// Trek avec Quetzaltrekkers, ascension du volcan Tajumulco au Guatemala, le plus haut sommet d’amérique centrale (4220m).

🇺🇸 Tercera semana en Xela

August 3, 2015.Reading time 13 minutes.

(Third week in Quetzaltenango) Week three carried on as usual in addition to getting mentally prepared for a weekend hike up Tajumulco, an extinct volcano in western Guatemala whose claim to fame is being the highest point in Central America at 4,222m (13,850ft). We went through a company called Quetzaltrekkers, a great organization whose tours […]

🇺🇸 Segunda semana en Xelajú

July 27, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

(Second week in Quetzaltenango) Pre Spanish conquest, Quetzaltenango was called “Xelajú” derived from the Mam “Xe laju’ noj,” meaning “under the ten mountains”, an aptly descriptive name for a city in a valley of hillsides and a volcano. The Spanish swept through in the 1520s, and renamed the city Quetzaltenango, “land of the quetzal bird”, […]