I have a dream
Sometimes reality doesn’t always match the common thread that we aspire to …
It literally rained cats and dogs last night … After a powerful thunderous and brilliantly-lit storm subsided, I was rudely aroused by a focal chorus of about 100 excited growling and barking dogs who kept me awake into the waking hours of my normal day. I gave in to wakefulness, after miserably failing to drown…
I have ALWAYS loved writing, especially when cre8ting magnetic art poetry. I have this program in my ‘Dashboard’ (MAC users only I’m afraid) that gives me a jumble of words, and I compose my own balads, everytime I restart my lovely G4 laptop. Here’s one of my favourites, this morning: slowly wasting zigzag unwilling you’ll…
It was such a surreal sight to see someone actually picking up garbage here in Guatemala. Antigua is a nostalgic clean city with character, so different from the rest of Guatemala and other third world countries. The city actually provides garbage cans conspicuously placed everywhere in positive attempts to keep it clean and appealing to…
Now that I’m starting to look for work, I wonder if this will be me??
I’ve been informed today that the Guatemalan postal system is completely unreliable and corrupt, and that receiving or sending any articles in the mail can not be counted on, unless sent or received through a public service such as UPS or Fed-Ex. Because of this small tidbit of information, I’m not too sure about how…
It’s been an amazingly hectic few weeks (and yes, I will eventually get my vacation blog up-to-date WITH pictures, promise!) with our jam-packed (literally! Mom gifted slaDE with 8 jars of strawberry freshness) vacation back to Ontario, a family wedding and a full-on Stampede with fireworks every night to keep us bright-eyed and awake into…