El martes, y world traveler missionary friend

Much time has passed since my last blog. I´m now working in two schools and with two community groups. Currently, I am exclusively working with ADICTA´s groups with the possibility of working with one of Intervida´s groups in the future. However, right now I would like to focus and do good work in the four communities I´m in right now.

On Tuesdays, I work in a village just down the road from my house called Villa Nueva. This is my favorite worksite thus far. I´m working with a small school there that has about 65 1st through 6th graders and only two teachers. This is a quite common ratio in Guatemala, and in fact, a bit better than most.

I met these teachers as I was walking back from Tuisinsé which is where I go on Thursdays. They were very open to starting a school garden, and also wanted a English class, and help with their new donated computer lab, which they hardly know anything about. So I´ve had my hands busy with this school, and have really been enjoying it. This is the school that I´ve quasi recently posted a bunch of pictures. Yesterday we finally planted! I really hope we have some success. The kids seemed to be really into it.

I´ll talk about the other communities and my activities there in upcoming blogs... do you believe me?

In other news, I saw Seth, my world traveling missionary ex-roomate from U, this weekend. (http://sethbarnesjr.theworldrace.org/) It was a great and surreal experience. Great in that we caught up and had good conversations. And surreal in the fact that I played Settlers of Catan, a good strategy board game, Halo 1, and took the best two showers I´ve had since coming to Guatemala at the missionary´s house in Chimaltenango. It was kinda like being in college again.