My favorite güipiles (woven blouses) have birds on the the pattern. Santiago Atitlán is my favorite style of güipil. Always stripes down the blouse and then colorful birds sewn across the neckline. But even the[…]
Category: Goodbye
T-minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): The Wednesday Takes It All
On Tuesday night, I couldn’t sleep. A mac track of tasks hit me: packing for a travel day the next day, packing for leaving forever, plus all the work I had to do tomorrow. All[…]
T-Minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): The First Goodbye Lunch
Upon returning from the Master Stylist workshop excursion in Huehue, the nice Indianans dropped me off at my highway stop. I waited for buses while I called my sister to catch up. I was so[…]
T-Minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): Translating For The Master Stylist
On our last day, our group of 16 stood in a large circle while the youth gave us palabras de agradecimiento. They also gave each one of us Estadounidenses little gifts to take home, recuerdos[…]
T-Minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): How To Lose A Pueblo in 10 Days
It’s 11pm on a Sunday night. It’s my second to last Sunday in site. Tomorrow I have a session to observe and some tasks to accomplish, and then I go to another school in the[…]
T-Minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): Theology, Tortilla Tears & Talent Show Tuesday
For those of you just tuning in, and for those of you who aren’t, thank you. This is my last month of Peace Corps. I am learning, as I continue to grow as a human,[…]
T-Minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): Monday in Middle Schools
My Normal Monday Working in Middle Schools with Teachers, Anticipating the Changes (well, the ones I can anticipate) and trying to flow with everything else.
T-minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): A Lazy Saturday
One of my last Saturdays in site.
The Beginning of the End: Peace Corps
Reflecting on Service and General Updates On Me.
Hi-Lo 10: Project Framework & Shift
This week marks an exciting undertaking which is the PROJECT FRAMEWORK REVISION for Youth in Development. Basically, each Peace Corps project has a ‘logic project framework’ or in Spanish marco de trabajo that defines our project goals and[…]