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Oh what fun! Another day of languid enjoyment of family, fall splendour and warm autumn days. Being the photo-happy Aunt that I am, I spent a gleeful few hours cataloguing flips and spins on the trampoline and video digitizing (quite shakily, from the helm of a bicycle) the ecstatic skateboard ramp jumps made by Forrester….
It’s amazing what can happen in a year … the good, the bad, the ugly. I witnessed it all. And survived, quite unharmed, gratefully. But today I had some sad news that has tied me in knots and was a huge factor in my returning from Guatemala a year ago, to the day. How strange…
“The Hippo kills more humans in Africa more than any wild mammal.” Quite the testament that I am still alive and thriving on this planet, having personally encountered a Hippopotamus in the wild while performing aqua aerobics in Lake Malawi, about 15 years ago. If someone had told me that I would be playfully dancing…
Another day, another massage. Gotta use those benefits up! What was supposed to be a therapeutic session of spiritual awakening turned out to be an expensive disappointment of a not-so-relaxing time-mismanagement. The Spa Europa had a beautiful exterior filled with false promise of services (and therefore expectations) lauded. What I had grown accustomed to in…
Yesterday was an incredibly easy laid-back sort of day, knowing that I had a few things to do but with seemingly all the time in the world. Funny how a day like that gets away on a person. It did for me! Before I knew it, 8pm rolled around I had accomplished very little of…
Herein began the day of the ultimate adventure …traversing the mountains in a Guatemalan bus. I left the orphanage with a multitude of heartfelt ‘Adios’es, making my way to an unknown bus heading to Quetzaltenango (commonly and fondly referred to as Xela — pronounced Shela) at an unknown time and departure point. I was ferried…