Got this monster in the market: 15cm long, 34 cm around it’s widest girth and 40 cm around top-bottom. Yum. Amber got me these. On the packaging it says “for ages 3 and up.” This is ridiculous. Blaise loves playing with them and he’s not even two yet! Who makes these executive decisions? This is … [Read more…]
You can’t have a moustache for just a day. Apparently. Moustache Men seem to be required to wear a moustache for years in order to be accepted. I remember seeing a band of misfits at a music festival in Stony Plain, all 20-somethings, all with moustaches. It really seemed out of place. My papa had … [Read more…]
For those faithful readers, I thought I would go back a few posts and provide an up-to-date report on some recent events (rather than post comments on 2-month-old posts): Frutas Extranjeras: Found out that the jocote is also known as the spondias mombin, the gully plum, the Spanish plum, the hog plum, the Ashanti plum, … [Read more…]
With short-term teams coming and going so often here (25 so far since I’ve been here), I’m often asked where I am from. FOr me that is a difficult question and I have a hard time answering it quickly. I’ve been living in this house in Tactic for 13 months now (after more than 5 … [Read more…]
I feel like this sometimes: What does it mean?
I magically transformed into a 31-year-old man yesterday. It was a refreshing experience and I highly recommend it for all you 40+ year-old men (and the curious among the women). I was asked if I felt older, and the answer is yes. The distance from my teens and twenties is greater now and it takes … [Read more…]
14th: Einstein’s birthday. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, … [Read more…]
INCIDENT 1: It just so happens that here in Guatemala employees are given ZERO authority at their job. So, when I ordered a bagel sandwich at a modern mall in Guatemala City and asked to have the yucky processed cheddar slice replaced with a piece of Swiss cheese, the sandwich artiste had to ask her … [Read more…]
Amber, Blaise and I are applying for Guatemalan residency. This is a lengthy process that I will enter into once I actually understand it. Yesterday, I received an email from our lawyer in Guatemala City that we had an appointment on Feb 1 at 8:30 AM at immigration. For this meeting we needed our passports … [Read more…]
I can still remember Miss Fitch in grade 4 telling my class to sit up straight and not to slouch. If only I had obeyed! Now I have a distinct cromagnon angle for my neck and I’ve lost perhaps 2 inches of visible height (which isn’t all that necessary in Guatemala, but still…). I just … [Read more…]