I definitely enjoy the Antigua life. It's not "real Guatemala", but it has its own special charms. For one thing, it's gorgeous.
Okay. I would write more but my laptop is dying and my housemate Jeen is not shutting up. And we have nachos, which are very distracting...
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Simplifying
I am going to go live on the Pacific coast, in two fishing villages that have sea turtle hatcheries. I have about a week and a half left here in Antigua.
This is an email I sent to my brother yesterday:
I'm going to live in a tiny fishing village near the El Salvadorian border! YOU WOULD LOVE IT HERE. I want you to come here. This morning I buried sea turtle eggs in the little hatchery. It's beautiful, lots of birds and lizards and other critters (mice in the kitchen... might get myself a cat) and they cook over a fire and we wash our hands in a pila, which is like a sink without running water, and it's just awesome and for you it would be like a big laboratory of fun!
Yesterday to get from El Rosario, another little village on the beach, down here to La Barrona, I went with Leon who is an English guy living and volunteering in La Barrona, and we had to hike along the beach and through muddy crab-filled forests and I saw a crested lizard that got up and ran on two legs and we had to wait and wave at the fisherman from across rivers for an hour just to get a lancha (little boat) to take us across and then we would stumble, mud-covered, into a little village and then we took a bus for a while and then we had to avoid getting ripped off and take another lancha to another village, and we got into the mangroves and that's where we are now, coastal jungle with lots of mangrove networks. It's very very hot, i got sunburned yesterday (six hour trek) for the first time in years and now I am craving salt like crazy. You would love the markets here, walking along the street. Here actually right now being La Colonia, a larger more inland town practically right on the El Salvadorian border (We probably crossed and uncrossed the border on the way here) and we had to take a chicken bus, a lancha, and another tiny bus to get here. Here I am using the internet and this is where the market is, it's a pretty nice little town, and I really think you would like it.
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I am now very sunburned on my shoulders, but... worth it!
This is an email I sent to my brother yesterday:
I'm going to live in a tiny fishing village near the El Salvadorian border! YOU WOULD LOVE IT HERE. I want you to come here. This morning I buried sea turtle eggs in the little hatchery. It's beautiful, lots of birds and lizards and other critters (mice in the kitchen... might get myself a cat) and they cook over a fire and we wash our hands in a pila, which is like a sink without running water, and it's just awesome and for you it would be like a big laboratory of fun!
Yesterday to get from El Rosario, another little village on the beach, down here to La Barrona, I went with Leon who is an English guy living and volunteering in La Barrona, and we had to hike along the beach and through muddy crab-filled forests and I saw a crested lizard that got up and ran on two legs and we had to wait and wave at the fisherman from across rivers for an hour just to get a lancha (little boat) to take us across and then we would stumble, mud-covered, into a little village and then we took a bus for a while and then we had to avoid getting ripped off and take another lancha to another village, and we got into the mangroves and that's where we are now, coastal jungle with lots of mangrove networks. It's very very hot, i got sunburned yesterday (six hour trek) for the first time in years and now I am craving salt like crazy. You would love the markets here, walking along the street. Here actually right now being La Colonia, a larger more inland town practically right on the El Salvadorian border (We probably crossed and uncrossed the border on the way here) and we had to take a chicken bus, a lancha, and another tiny bus to get here. Here I am using the internet and this is where the market is, it's a pretty nice little town, and I really think you would like it.
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I am now very sunburned on my shoulders, but... worth it!
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