Dec
28
2005
Today is our third day of school and the second that our thoughtful neighbor Gail has appeared at our door bright and early with delicious coffee. She totally rules (as we say in Guatemala). Yesterday afternoon my teacher told me that, for our field trip today, she wants to go to the village of Pastores. [...]
Dec
27
2005
I feel worse today. I don’t think it’s the gumdrops after all. It was all I could do to drag myself out of bed at 6:45 this morning, after a night of tossing and teeth-chattering with chills. The cool thing is that el Volcan de Fuego, one of two I can see from my bedroom [...]
Dec
26
2005
I don’t feel well today. Too many gumdrops? Wouldn’t you think that after a week in Antigua I’d stop getting lost? Today was our first day of Spanish school. Our house is due south of the school so I’m not sure why we started walking west but we did, ominously passing the cemetery and then [...]