On the mend
Still here in Antigua, ready to move on, but there is a music festival on Saturday, that sounds great http://jamtigua.com/home3.htm. So, I´ll go to that with my new friend (a woman from Onset...man...small world). She´s kind of obnoxious to the locals, and a little to clingy with me, so I´ll be ready to split by Sunday, when I´ll catch a bus to Lake Atitilan: http://travelsinparadise.com/guatemala/atitlan/index.html where I´ll finally start Spanish school.
We went to the outdoor market yesterday. It´s so neat to see the Mayan woman with the babies wrapped in a shawl slung over their backs. It works really well for them.
On the way out we passed the dump. It was awful...there were people climbing the piles of crap looking for food. There doesn´t appear to be much middle class here. It´s the haves and the haves not. Everywhere I´ve been there is a visable police presence. They carry big ass sub machine guns and some of them look all of 15. Note to self, behave.
Saw some Nigerian men, they were in their traditional African dress. I imagine you don´t often see a Nigerian tribal dress in Guatemala. They were here for some kind of conference. One of them had scars on his face that as an infant his parents put there. It looked like whiskers.
There are tons of Americans and Canadians here. I was chatting with some older men yesterday who had sailed down to the coast from Prince Edward Island. It´s been a nice break to hear English. I forgot to mention the amount of Isrealis that I´ve come across. Not so much here in Antigua, but up north, I think I heard more Hebrew than Spanish.
The weather is beautiful, sunny and clear...cool in the mornings and evenings. Not a trace of humidity.
Oh and if you´re super cool, you have your teeth framed in gold with little stars on them. Sexxxy!
We went to the outdoor market yesterday. It´s so neat to see the Mayan woman with the babies wrapped in a shawl slung over their backs. It works really well for them.
On the way out we passed the dump. It was awful...there were people climbing the piles of crap looking for food. There doesn´t appear to be much middle class here. It´s the haves and the haves not. Everywhere I´ve been there is a visable police presence. They carry big ass sub machine guns and some of them look all of 15. Note to self, behave.
Saw some Nigerian men, they were in their traditional African dress. I imagine you don´t often see a Nigerian tribal dress in Guatemala. They were here for some kind of conference. One of them had scars on his face that as an infant his parents put there. It looked like whiskers.
There are tons of Americans and Canadians here. I was chatting with some older men yesterday who had sailed down to the coast from Prince Edward Island. It´s been a nice break to hear English. I forgot to mention the amount of Isrealis that I´ve come across. Not so much here in Antigua, but up north, I think I heard more Hebrew than Spanish.
The weather is beautiful, sunny and clear...cool in the mornings and evenings. Not a trace of humidity.
Oh and if you´re super cool, you have your teeth framed in gold with little stars on them. Sexxxy!
posted by amy at 11:00 AM
2 Comments:
ooo ya - are you gonna get a grill too?? you would look extra hot with good toof display!!! hahahahah
sounds like you are having a great time and I full expect you to teach me spanich when you get home!! (ok, at least the bad words!!) Miss ya!! be safe!!
lol...Sally! Miss yah too, chica.
Leander, no doubt! The first doctor who admitted me was actually smokin' hot. But I was so sick I couldn't even think of that. Plus, I was rather repulsive.
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