Arriving at Guatemala City!
Our group at Hotel Spring, Guatemala City
Smudge from the van window... sorry
Guatemala City from the van
Hotel Spring
Relief Map of Guatemala
Cathedral of Guatemala City in the Parque Centrale
Interior of the Cathedral
Exterior portal of the cathedral
City Dump. We were going to visit Safe Passages, an organization that works with the families and children who work at the dump, but since President Bush was visiting and Laura Bush decided she wanted to visit Safe Passages, we couldn't go. So we just went to look at the dump.
The dump fills a ravine... here's more trash along the side of the ravine
Talking with Lucilla at Conavigua, an organization that helps widows of the civil war
With Dennis Smith, who works at CEDEPCA, an ecumenical organization that supports mission groups and gives classes to Guatemalans
The Albert Einstein PrePrimary School--we didn't actually go here or anything, I just thought it was funny.
Guatemalan highways are extremely scary!
Chicken bus: a form of public transportation, so called because people often bring their goods to market on them, including live chickens
Centro Lutherano in Antigua
Art in a restaurant in Antigua
Volcanoes in Panajachel
View from my second-story room in Panajachel
Hotel Utz-Jay in Panajachel
Lake Atitlan and Stassi with the boat
Church in Santiago-Atitlan, across Lake Atitlan from Panajachel. Here we visited a monument to Stan Rother, an American priest killed here during the civil war
Eating ice cream in Pollo Campero (a kind of Guatemalan KFC)
Santo Domingo
The central park with a mini-zoo
Look at the sad monkey!
The Presbyterian church in Santo Domingo... it's in a family's backyard
The church
Our group with our hostess, Dina
Some of the kids we met, eating a kind of cacao, I think. Tasted weird.
Habitat for Humanity house built by the church that hosted us
The John Calvin School, where we stayed for three days
The girls' room. Notice that the wall doesn't meet the roof... ash would fall into our room from outside from burning sugarcane
The 6th grade classroom that served as the girls' room
Rubble... at right is the guys' room, which was another classroom just like ours
The 6th graders, who I worked with
Our 6th grade "classroom" since we were staying in their real classroom
My beautiful chalk artwork
Cesar, one of the little kids in the family who hosted us. He's only 2.
Painting the guys' room... this was our service project
Stephanie (top) and Anna (bottom) who both go to UNC
As you can see, the room is just cinder block, and we tried to paint it... but three of our things of paint were bad so we weren't able to finish
Mayan and Olmec ruins at Tak Alik
A frog statue!
The park with the ruins also had an animal sanctuary... here are some animals
Teresa, a woman who came with us to the park to tell us about Mayan spirituality, pouring the leftover Gatorade we used for communion on the modern Mayan altar
San Felipe - here's a river that borders the Finca Santa Elena, where we stayed
The river. Not sure why all the whites got blown out in these pictures.
Our group plus Mark, our host, and his doggies
Antigua
Cathedral in Antigua, the old capital of Guatemala
Will, Marie, and me
The cathedral at night
Another church in Antigua
A "rug" made of sand, prepared for Lent, inside the foregoing church
Close-up of the sand
Here's me in the Lutheran Center... we each had a portrait done for our slide show
