Some photos of my last week here in Xelaju, Guatemala where i studied hard for 4 weeks. Grasping another language as an adult is no easy task, I HAD NO IDEA!! My teachers were patient, full of laughter, a saving grace was translating poetry by a mayan poet from a small village close to here, simple nature based poetry that was easy for me to grasp. On paper i can do much more than i can actually speak. The next two weeks i vow to practice speaking as much as i can. It's a hard go to feel confident in actually being able to be understood. I know more than i did before i came, much more, and for that i am glad. I met amazing people at the school and plan to bring a group back here next year for a programme of spanish learning and some travelling around the country, seeking to understand.
I have two more weeks which will involve some travel, to Santa Lucia, Julio's village, to Antigua to meet up with Pam and Emily from St. Andrew's Wesley. I get to help them out for a day at Safe Passage!!! Then a trip into the Quiche to visit Emilie at the Peace House, Betty at the school in Chinique and a trip into the northern Quiche with julio, a place i have not been.
I'll be back in Canada on July 18.
Much love and affection, miss you all and Canada but LOVE it here.
Dor
with my teacher Eduardo
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