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This kid, 6 years old, really seemed to like me. we played soccer a lot. one day his older sister was doing some weird stunt lifting him up and he fell on his head. i was standing right there. it… Continue Reading →
The kitchen at the mountain school. The big cement sink with 3 sections is called a ‘pila’ and is common throughout Guatemala.
The schedule boards one of which shows which student has which teacher and eats with which family. The other board lists the special activities for that week.
The rainswept main street that goes past the Mountain School, then the villages of Fatima, Nuevo San jose, and Santo Domingo.
The second family I ate with. In the center, Teresa, and her kids, Angelina, Luis Alfredo, Melvin, Roxana, and the husband, Guillermo.
One of the many celebrations of Mother’s Day. These girls are doing a little dance number.
The gringo students head down the street to dinner. Rosie, in the foreground, is laughing because it looks like the gringo posse is heading off to a rumble with the locals down the hill.
kids playing marbles in Fatima, one of the villages down the hill from the Mountain School.
part of the first family that I had meals with while at the Mountain School. Jose Luis, and his mother, in their kitchen.
A typical night at the Mountain School, most everyone gathered around the kitchen table studying spanish.