Some highlights-
Dinner with my Guatemalan family and Pauline and Lisa and my teacher, Ana.
Three beautiful days at La Iguana Perdida in Santa Cruz la Laguna on lake Atitlan and having a child guide take us to Maximon (look it up). Meeting people there from Santa Cruz and Humboldt and sharing thanksgiving dinner with a singing ER doc from Washington DC and a family of five from the greater New Orleans area, traveling for an indefinite amount of time while homeschooling their children. And having one of these children, age 12, serenading the entire international crowd of about 70 with classic guitar songs. Funny conversations that start with the sentence, "so on my way here, someone stole my didgeridoo". And then the accidental interview to finish up a school year with 4th graders in Panajachel at a private school started with UN values that started with gringos years ago and now serves 85% guate families, 50% for free.
Mom flew in Saturday morning and we spent a night in Antigua, had lunch at the most gorgeous place with Carolina, and then ran into a couple I had met at the lake almost a month ago. Last time I saw them, they'd literally jumped on a chicken bus to Guatemala City, the man hanging off the bottom step and onto a pole, so full that the door wouldn't close. I guess he made it!
We shuttled the next morning to El Tunco, El Salvador and have spent the last 36 hours soaking up sun, wading in the water and on the black sand, eating ceviche and lobster, and "liberating" turtles. I love it when Spanish / English translations aren't exactly the same.
Tonight we are sitting at our tiny hotel on the beach, eating mahi mahi made by an el Salvadorean chef who lived in Louisiana in the 70's and has a voice like the godfather, with a lovely couple from Hawaii and chilling out, while being protected by an armed guard with a machine gun. It's all good!
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