Common Hope village visit
Last week, we went on another field trip, this time with a group called Common Hope. They help kids and families who are struggling with poverty and can’t afford to get their kids into school. Stacey wrote quite a bit about it on her blog, so if you’re interested, you might want to [...]
Roasting marshmallows on lava
Tomorrow morning at 6:00 am (which is 7:00 back in Valparaiso) Stacey and I leave for Pacaya, the only active volcano in Guatemala that they let you climb. From what we’ve been told, it’s about an hour and half to get there, two hours to climb it, then an hour to climb back down. [...]
Out and about in Antigua
The school we’re attending each day is the Christian Spanish Academy. It’s a very nice place, with an inner courtyard and lots of tables for all that one-on-one instruction. I included some pics… including Stacey’s “first day of school” picture.
I realize you couldn’t see it much earlier, due to the clouds, [...]
First pics of Antigua, Guatemala
Here are pics of our first couple days in town. Every day we walk about 5 blocks to the Christian Spanish Academy, where we work one-on-one with our teachers from 8:00 am until 1:00 pm (with a break from 10:00 to 10:30). Then we walk back to the house we’re living in (with [...]
