Today is election day which means only one thing to me: NO MORE PEOPLE CAMPAIGNING! What is most fascinating to me is how little the leaders focus on platform. They just want to make a lot of noise and get their face on everything that a paper can stick to. Here is an example of … [Read more…]
Huh? What’s that all about eh? This morning a plane flew over Tactic and unloaded a kazillion leaflets over the town. It’s campaign time (has been for months). These leaflets do not contain any information aside from the names of the presidential candidate one of the local reps and the name and symbol of their … [Read more…]
Our friends Erick and Gloria surprised us last night by whisking us off to Cobán and taking us to quite a nice restaurant. Up until now, our dining in Cobán had been limited to the food court at the mall where we do most of our grocery shopping. I wanted to try something I had … [Read more…]
Remember that Seinfeld episode where one of their cars gets stolen and they phone the car phone and talk to the theif? Yesterday while I was taking photos of the construction site of a new school and medical clinic, my cell phone slipped off my belt. I discovered two hours later after taking Blaise to … [Read more…]
This is what we woke up to yesterday morning. This is the 6″ goat poop soup in our little goat shelter. It’s been raining every day and nearly every night for the past ten days and the forecast is calling for more rain. Fortunately, we are dry and our goats are dry too. Our ministry … [Read more…]
605 people were murdered in Canada last year. That’s 1.81 murders per 100,000 people. 5885 people were murdered in Guatemala last year. That’s 46.23 murders per 100,000 people. The difference is primarily due to a culture of impunity in Guatemala. The BBC article says that last year the murder convictions were in the single digits. … [Read more…]
It’s the middle of the night between day 2 and day 3 of a medical clinic in Pansalché. I think it’s fair to say that medical clinics are the most exhausting jobs I do here: supervising a pharmacy, managing drop-ins (patient lists are pre-arranged, so we don’t accept many drop-ins, so basically it means saying … [Read more…]
It started raining at about 5:30 pm while church was on. Lightly at first, then a downpour. The things of church quickly left my mind as I began to think about my pour goats, tethered out there in the pouring rain. So I drove home, put the goats into their brand new home and drove … [Read more…]
My buddy René and I drove out to Salamá and surrounding areas looking for two milking goats. We’re told that there are heaps of them in a place called Rincón. There was one. So we looked some more and there were a few here and there. We ended having to drive through a river to … [Read more…]
Last night, Amber had a hankerin’ for some churrascos. So I jumped into the car (with Blaise) and fired into the centre of Tactic where hundreds of other locals were making their way too. The churrasco is a very thin piece of beef steak, similar in cut to what they dice up for you at … [Read more…]