Getting Used to Things

Here are 10 things I'm getting used to here in Guatemala.

1) Corn tortillas at every meal

2) Children petting my arms (apparently they’re curious about my arm hairs)

3) Rain, puddles, and clouds hovering over the green mountains

4) Animals (children feeding their recess snack to a donkey through the fence, stray dogs in devotions, and the bus stopping so the chickens can finishing crossing the road)

5) Watching the sunrise from the bus just after 6:30

6) Guatemalan driving and pot holes

7) Going to the market almost daily (people don’t buy in bulk)

8) Students laughing at my Spanish pronunciation (especially of their names)

9) Interpreting people trying their English out on me (students, teachers, and random strangers)

10) People calling out Seño! (teacher) as I walk through town (students, teachers, and random strangers)

Special breakfast with the teachers: fried eggs with salsa, plantains, chorizo, refried beans, cream, cheese, tortillas, tea with cinnamon

Walking from Chicoy to Mocohan

Rainy weather at Chicoy

Taking the bus from Purulha

Tactic, on the way to Chijacorral