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 window, is putting on a dramatic show. Some mornings I can see delicate wisps rising from the crater, but today […]
Read moreMonth: December 2005
Las Estudiantes
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 getting lost among the vegetables in the mercado. When we arrived several blocks north of the school, we paused to […]
Read moreHo Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho
Wonder of wonders: Santa appears to have dropped by during the night. For years my mother has threatened to stop sending me stocking stuffers. The nerve. Here I am, a mere child, and she wants to deprive me of such joy. But bless her great big heart: once again she came through for me this year. Last night I stuffed M’s stocking and then my own with the red-tissue-paper-wrapped goodies from Mom. My mother gave […]
Read moreA Farewell to Atitlí¡n
Here’s a little map I drew that shows the lake and where we went. After breakfast (M ordered The Gringo) we wandered down to the dock to wait for the lancha publica to take us to Panajachel. It arrived so jammed with passengers that it took concerted human repackaging to get us all to fit. I sat next to a Maya woman with sparkling gold teeth and a sparkling pink huipil. We both lifted our […]
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