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Viajando a Lemoa
Travelling to Lemoa
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Sick. Very sick. High
temperature with all the trimmings. It got so bad on Saturday that I finally
decided to break out my secret weapon: Cipro. Guaranteed to wipe out any unauthorized
organisms lurking in your body, and maybe even a few innocent bystanders.
Powerful stuff, and it really works. After just the first course I was feeling
much better.
On Sunday we went to the Iglesia Metodista
Primitiva. This was the one Sunday in the month that the kids from the
Hogar ran the service; the pastor got up only to give the sermon. The children
did a wonderful job. A member of the congregation got up to give a prayer of
thanks, and I was struck by what she was thankful for: the land, the sun,
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| On Monday I went to the site of the new orphanage in
Lemoa with Elisa, Benjamin, Federico, and a
detachment of niños. We spent the morning excavating the orchard, which
had become overgrown with weeds. This was done via machete, which I found quite
an effective tool. With a carefully sharpened edge, it can cut a swath through
weeds like a hot knife through butter. The kids also use the machetes to peel
apples and limes in an alarmingly offhand manner. We picked a few sacks full of
apples, which were practically falling off the trees, and a bucketful of fresh
limes. The orchard also provides pears, avacados, plums, figs, oranges, and a
couple of other indigenous fruits that I'm not sure of. |
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Benjamin y Maria
on the
taxi
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Féderico con machete
Mowing
the lawn, Guatemalan style. |
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Black beans and rice again for dinner tonight. I think
I'm getting close to my breaking point. I'm beginning to flinch just at the
sight of that meal. But the baby of the group, Maria, just tripped by singing
out to everyone how wonderful her dinner was. I asked her what it was, as she
tends to get special treatment. Indeed it was black beans and rice. She must
not have eaten much, though, because later she got Pollo Campero (Guatemala's
version of KFC).
I do have to say one thing: Eating a steady bland diet
really makes you appreciate foods you previously had little interest in, say, a
chocolate-dipped vanilla ice cream bar. I know theory is true because I tested
it scientifically on Sunday.
Twice. |
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Les mando saludos! Espero que se encuentren bien. Estoy
bien aqui. Todos las noches hago mi tarea, y estoy muy cansado por estar
haciendo tarea. Yo disfruta mucho con mis amigas en el colegio. Estoy
estudiando secretaria bilingual. Que Dios les bendiga.
Greetings! I
hope you are well. I am well here. Every night I do lots of homework, and am
very tired of doing homework. I very much enjoy being with my friends from
school. I am studying to be a bilingual secretary. God bless
you.
Ana |
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