I just spent a few minutes looking through pictures from this weekend and smiling. We had today (Monday) off because it’s independence day here today – a long weekend for students and staff included. The students headed to the lake (Lago Atitlan) and we headed to the capital city for some fun with one of our coworkers Ruth – she’s a Guatemala City native and a sweetheart. The weekend was full of fun conversations and luxuries including (but not limited to) a morning at a lovely salon, a wonderful lunch and a cinnabun for dessert, a massage, a new pair of skinny jeans and a fabulous evening of dancing.
And although all of the previously mentioned things were wonderful, the best part about this weekend was feeling like I have friends down here. Joe (my coworker) and his girlfriend Elliett are wonderful and silly and do a great job at including me in general, and Ruth is just as great. Perhaps not what most people imagine my life down here to look like, but hey, Central America is certainly a place of extremes. This weekend – extremely good.
I just spent a few minutes looking through pictures from this weekend and smiling. We had today (Monday) off because it’s independence day here today – a long weekend for students and staff included. The students headed to the lake (Lago Atitlan) and we headed to the capital city for some fun with one of our coworkers Ruth – she’s a Guatemala City native and a sweetheart. The weekend was full of fun conversations and luxuries including (but not limited to) a morning at a lovely salon, a wonderful lunch and a cinnabun for dessert, a massage, a new pair of skinny jeans and a fabulous evening of dancing.
And although all of the previously mentioned things were wonderful, the best part about this weekend was feeling like I have friends down here. Joe (my coworker) and his girlfriend Elliett are wonderful and silly and do a great job at including me in general, and Ruth is just as great. Perhaps not what most people imagine my life down here to look like, but hey, Central America is certainly a place of extremes. This weekend – extremely good.
2 comments:
you bought skinny jeans?! i thought the day would never come...
wait, like by "skinny jeans" do you mean where it's skinny at your ankle and stuff and kind of what you see in magazines?? geez becky, that's pretty fashionable... haha :)
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