Sunscreen and other words of wisdom

Yeah it’s Friday! I must say, ‘Good Friday’ is an aptly well-named holiday 🙂 Any three day weekend is a welcome reprieve from the grind, especially when one gets paid for it. It’s kinda interesting working for a whole whack of Dental Hygienists around Easter time. I wasn’t sure if I’d be getting mini-lectures on…

It’s Friday evening and slaDE, Ed and myself are driving the lengthy distance to my father’s, looking to spend some quality time with my family, before I leave. It’ll be quite lovely, seeing my younger sister Aaron and spending some time just breathing in the fresh country air (some not so fresh 🙂 ). It’s…

Today’s school activity involved taking a chicken bus to HueHuetenango to see Los Ruinos with Aimee and maestro Mario. Basically the chicken buses are retired US/Canadian school buses and the bus I took to Xela was by far a more ‘luxurious’ Pullman (these are mainly retired Greyhounds). I was really quite surprised by the low…

Today I was humbled … I’ve always thought that I’ve been well-travelled, until I observed that I have only travelled 15% of the world’s countries. Oh how I yearn to travel more … so many countries to experience and live in, so little time! I do feel eternally grateful, however, for the enormous opportunities that…

It was so good to get away, to leave a dank dim home so musty and clogged with summer’s humidity, the sort that hangs heavily, thick as cottage cheese. Yuck … My partner and I wanted to go hang out with Kali, Ed and his two friends from Mexico, Ricardo and Marcel. We joined them…

What a lovely way to spend a Monday evening …. dinner with newfound friends, our neighbours Joy and John. Lovely conversation, enjoyable company and the elegance of our warm surroundings made for a cozy experience :). Out of our similarities, I think I found myself a new morning walking partner in Joy (formerly a National…