After a few lovely weeks celebrating the season and how a week of hermiting at the house in Naramata i'm heading off to Guatemala on Jan 13 for two weeks. Right before Christmas I was pondering and praying about what i should do next and asking that the right thing come across my path. On Christmas Day I went to visit dad at his home and one of the nurses is guatemalan and we've talked over time about the place and how it would be neat to be there at the same time once. Turns out she was going on Jan 6 for three weeks and invited me to come down, stay with her family, and do some touring with her. Bingo! What a great opportunity, to see a place like guatemala through the eyes of people who live and have lived through the history will be so very great. So i pondered and prayed some more and knew it was what i had to do. I leave on Jan 13, Rena and family will pick me up from the airport and i'll stay with them for a week in Gautemala City. She will be able to arrange a nephew of her's to drive us to Chinique so that the books and money from the Library Project I've been working on can be delivered and I can visit the students and see the place again. Then on the 20th I'll head to Antigua, about an hour outside of Gautemala City to go to language school for a little over a week. I have other contacts i want to connect with, Safe Passage Offices in Antigua, Rosa and the Clinic in Guatemala City (all doing research for future tours).
I'm accutely aware of how blessed I am. In a world where so many cannot travel and will never ever take a ride in a plane, I simply decide, asking no one's permission, and travel wherever it is i wish. My priviledge as a Canadian is huge in a world of so many limitations for so many. I am aware of it. To whom much is given, much is expected. I'm hoping the library project will make some kind of difference. I'll post pictures if i can but i'm not taking my computer, i will write however, from one of the many new internet cafes in guatemala. Stay tuned.
Send prayers my way as I travel. Sending you all love for a blessed and aware new year.
market pic of Chichicastenango, Guatemala
The School in Chinique, Quiche, Guatemala
I'm accutely aware of how blessed I am. In a world where so many cannot travel and will never ever take a ride in a plane, I simply decide, asking no one's permission, and travel wherever it is i wish. My priviledge as a Canadian is huge in a world of so many limitations for so many. I am aware of it. To whom much is given, much is expected. I'm hoping the library project will make some kind of difference. I'll post pictures if i can but i'm not taking my computer, i will write however, from one of the many new internet cafes in guatemala. Stay tuned.
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