Nearly four years ago, I visited Tikal with Amber, Saison, Dean, and Mariah. Very little has changed since that time. Most noticeably, more areas are restricted to the public – not to be considered a deterrent however as none of the signs are obeyed by anyone (well, I obeyed them) (mostly). The other thing that … [Read more…]
Driving to the World Heritage Site of Tikal in the Peten of Guatemala, one must be exceedingly cautious. (though I only saw 4 of the pictured animals the entire trip)
Houseflies now populate our house. I am not prepared to make concessions on their attempt to squat in my house. Therefore, we have turned to the power of the Fliegenfänger. Frogs (or perhaps they are toads – I never audited speciation or zoology in Univ.) now populate our yard. I kind of like them. They … [Read more…]
Jesús Chavarria that is. This guy is awesome. He doesn’t stop traffic for you, but there is no way anyone is crossing the road if any vehicle is within a km from the crossing area. He’s at roadside from 6:50 am – 7:40 am and 12:20 pm – 12:50 pm every school day – just … [Read more…]
…in a river of molten lava, let ’em go, cause man, they’re gone! I climbed Volcano Pacaya with my sister, Saison a couple weeks ago. The hike lasted 2 hours to cover 4 kms (2.5 miles). The vertical increase was 800 m (about 2600 feet), the last 400 m was very steep and over volcanic … [Read more…]
Saturday – I accidentally delete a scene from the film I’m working on. This just means redoing about 4 hours of work. Sunday – I have a headache. Then while we’re at church in the evening, our house is robbed of more than $8000 worth of stuff. Monday – I’m in a daze because I … [Read more…]
I spent 4 hours translating letters from children to their sponsors. It was a delight (despite the sharp pains in my right arm afterwards). Here are some of the things some children wrote and their literal translation (sometimes you have to draw the meaning out for the sponsor, or they may not understand…). All the … [Read more…]
I was too tired to post this last night. Yesterday afternoon, I visited 19 homes with Mercedez and Carlos, again collecting information for sponsors and taking pictures. Here are some of the photos: When we arrived at this boy’s house, he was doing his homework outside (no electricity for light indoors) kneeling on the ground … [Read more…]
Cell phone beeping wakes me up. Snooze. Fry an egg and fail miserably at it – it is burnt in areas and raw in others. Briskly walk to school and worship with 230 passionate kids. Teach grades 8-10 how to pronounce the silent “b” (as in crumb and lamb) and some conversation. During recess, I … [Read more…]
Take a gander at what I’ve been up to some of the time for the past couple months. I’m still waiting for Dave to finish the news and docs pages.