Remembrance Day

I can hardly believe it myself … I actually BOUGHT a Nokia CELL PHONE! Wow, this in incredibly techie and modern for someone who has never owned and rarely has used a cellular telephone. But indeed, with the incredibly cheap pay-as-you-go cell rates + the incentive of receiving FREE phone calls, whether locally or Internationally,…

Saw a movie called “If the mango trees could talk” or something along that lines. It was a 1 hr documentary (Canadian-made!) telling the story of the Guatemalan Armed Conflict from the eyes of 10 children, deeply affected by the Civil War, who are scattered throughout different Guatemalan regions. What continues to haunt me is…

How interesting to come to a country not knowing the language … Now I know truly understand and empathize with what it feels to be a minority!! The ability to really speak with anyone on an intellectual basis is impossible at this point and my attempts at forming an intelligible, unambiguous sentence is like pulling…