I have been keeping a marvelous part of Guatemala from all of you. Colours. Everywhere there are the most brilliant and shocking colours – whether it be in the women’s huipils, the cuisine, or the landscape. Although black and white is just so wonderful for displaying textures which are so common and intricate throughout Guatemala...
As promised I have attached a self portrait. This is me, with a dent on my forehead. I attribute this dent to particularly low door frames, oddly stacked single beds, and my lack of depth perception (apparently). Being 5’8″ I am not particularly tall here in Canada. In Guatemala however, I noticed a distinct height...
Upon arriving in Guatemala I was greeted by the CAUSE Canada interns and representative at the airport and so began a seven hour cross-country adventure from Guatemala City to Huehuetenango (pronounced Way-way-ten-ango and more fondly referred to simply as Huehue). Being an enthusiastic road tripper the prospect of such a long car ride wasn’t too...
I should probably start with this disclaimer: I am a horrible writer. Not only do I have a tendency to switch tenses three times in a sentence (which really shouldn’t be that much of a surprise seeing as I was dubbed ‘Queen of Run-On Sentences’ in Junior High Grammar class and can easily write an...
