Guatemala
Visa Run
Last Saturday I went to Mexico. I ate some tacos, watched the World Cup in an air-conditioned restaurant, bought some toilet paper at Sams Club and then…went back to Guatemala. The entire trip lasted six hours. My tourist visa was about to expire and I needed to get it extended for another three months. And … Continue reading
Guatemalan Schools are Corrupt (I know. Duh, right?)
The Education system in this country is corrupt. I know that this shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that this is Guatemala, after all. It’s by no accident that two percent of the population live in mansions while the rest of the country (read: the Mayan indigenous population) live under the International poverty line. … Continue reading
How’d you like to wake up to THIS on your birthday?
As far as places I’ve lived with weirdo customs, Japan definitely takes first prize (remember the Penis Festival?). But you gotta give it to Guatemala for trying. When it’s your birthday here, people have this interesting annoying tradition that involves lighting fire crackers outside the birthday boy or girl’s bedroom door. At dawn. Or sometimes … Continue reading
That’s Guatemala For Ya
Today at work I was asked to substitute teach the Spanish class. One of the high school Spanish teachers had called out sick and being that I was the only teacher with a free period during that time, I’d been picked to fill-in. Which would have been perfectly fine if it weren’t for one teeny, … Continue reading
My New Job
If you read “teaching job in Guatemala” in my last post and envisioned me sweating it out in a humid, windowless shack while my students sat on the dirt floor, shoeless yet eager to learn…well, you’d be a tad bit off with that one. The reality is that I teach in a very posh International … Continue reading
