And... A Few More

Our time in Guatemala City is officially over; yesterday we took our last Spanish exam and today we all said goodbye to our families.  Even though we still have about a month left, it kind of feels like cross-cultural is over already.  It's going to be hard to go back to living out of a suitcase again after being settled in one place for so long!  I'm going to miss my host mom as well as just the bustle of living here in the city and taking the bus every day.  But we're leaving early early tomorrow morning for free travel and all sorts of new adventures!  :)

hammocks are such a great invention

we had a great view from the roof of our hotel by Lake Atitlan

Spanish class!

Mapa en Relieve, which shows the geography of the whole country (on the right you can kind of see Volcan Pacaya, which is the one we climbed)

fresh fruit all the time :)

mi colonia (my neighborhood)

me with my host mom Olga

A Few Random Pictures

view of the plaza between the cathedral and the presidential palace

this rose is replaced every day as a sign of the ongoing "peace" that Guatemala enjoys

national cemetery: one one side, huge family tombs and on the other side, cubbies where you can keep your loved one for 7 years

city dump: every day people come to sort through the trash to try to find something salvageable

a widows' cooperative near Chichicastentango

one of the many ruins at Tikal

Catholic church in Santiago with figures dressed in a Mayan fashion