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Sat, 30 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [1371]
The Pacaya Volcano is still active. The hot lava burns the shoes, a wrong movement can provoke tragic consequences and I am going to visit it today. Volcanoes are like a story, the beginning tries to attract, is where it has more stops, the guide ... Read more >
Fri, 29 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [3152]
The piñata is the sign and the children of the school know it. Today is the birthday party of all who were born in may. Every child receives sweets and the birthday kids receive gifts, while they wait sitting in circle for his turn to strike the ... Read more >
Thu, 28 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [1116]
With the stove finished today I will work on my documentary and take pictures of the community. I see the row of children who wait in the door to go inside the school, they play with the teachers and ask me when I will return to teach them, I promise ... Read more >
Wed, 27 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [1172] | Comments [1]
Today we finished the stove, earlier than I thought. Carolina did it possible, because today the Manchester United and Barcelona play the final of the Champions League. She is a football fan and she explains to me that in the community they are ... Read more >
Tue, 26 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [1357]
The stoves like the one we are building with Carolina, have a chimney that canalize the exit of smoke and use a small quantity of wood. We have already built the half of the stove, after the cement blocks that support it, come the bricks, I cannot ... Read more >
Mon, 25 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [1167]
I am in the shuttle with other volunteers. Across the front torn glass, under the rear-view mirror adorned by a small peach of plastic, I see how we approach to San Andrés Itzapa, there appears the advertising of the candidates for mayor of 2008 election ... Read more >
Sun, 24 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [2695]
Sunday is one of the most active days in Anigua, because the tourists. In the Central Park, close to the fountain that represents sirens, I meet Michael Sherer, a travel writer that lives in the city, to talk about this place he calls " the unofficial ... Read more >
Sat, 23 May 2009 | By tom_moench | Views [564]
Yesterday we arrived back in the US of A with wonderful memories of a second home in Xela and an appointment with a mountain named Rainier.
Sat, 23 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [1644]
In Antigua there is a system of secondhand books that with some luck makes possible to find good books for cheap prices. The tourists leave their old books and can exchange or buy others with a discount, but it is not a requirement to be able to buy.... Read more >
Fri, 22 May 2009 | By tom_moench | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 22 May 2009 | By enrique_nunez_mussa | Views [2088]
Let's speak about the classroom. The desks are distributed in three rows. They are of wood and metal, painted in yellow and soft blue already peeled. Now let's speak what happens inside the room. From already I warn that it is not very different from ... Read more >
Thu, 21 May 2009 | By tom_moench | Views [784] | Comments [2]
We took our Guate hosts for the evening--Raquel & Gustavo with sons Estuart and Samuel--for a delightful dinner and Spanish conversation at the Italian restaurant L'Osteria. Unfortunately I did not manage to get a photo of all of us, but Raquel snapped ... Read more >
Thu, 21 May 2009 | By tom_moench | Views [1722]
Only spent one afternoon and evening in Guate. Took a walk up to the central square with its cathedral and fountain so typical of the cities from colonial times.
Thu, 21 May 2009 | By tom_moench | Photo Gallery
These are hiking photos taken during Week 9/our Antigua stay.
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Thu, 21 May 2009 | By tom_moench | Views [1376]
The morning of our last day we visited the Capuchinas Convent, one of my favorite sites in Antigua. It is the most restored of earlier churches depicting the circular convent for the nuns. Here is the courtyard with Theora peaking out from one of the ... Read more >
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