Love Guatemala Blog

  • Cerro de la Cruz, Antigua

    Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Mark and Gina Schmidt put a beautiful day together for us in Antigua. We started out at Cerro de la Cruz which overlooks the city of Antigua and the volcanos. Then drove into Antigua. First stop was Ruinas del Convento Mercedario, built in the 18th Century. After that, off to the…

  • Whistle While You Work

    Monday, August 22, 2011 This was the most labor intensive day of the week. We are working with Christian on his home (whom we met the day we arrived). We were grateful to be joined by Mark and Gina Schmidt of deepStream and Carlos Lopez of La Esquela de Arte. We met Chris Steed who…

  • Chicken Coop Madness

    Sunday, August 21, 2011 This was the only day that our neighbor played music most of the morning. And as if there weren't already a number of ways to prepare an egg, we were introduced to another way. The egg was flat and textured, lightly fried with a runny yoke. Delicioso! Today, we will be…

  • Fireworks, Roosters and Dogs, oh my!

    Saturday, August 20, 2011 The night is filled with dog fights. We awake to fireworks that are set off at 5 a.m. as a part of birthday celebrations and the sound of roosters and dog's barking. My favorite was the sound of the horse walking down the street near the team house. There is a…

  • A New Day (or better known as our longest day of most likely the year)

    Friday, August 19, 2011 We arrive in Guatemala City to be picked up by a charter from deepStream. It's about an hour drive into the mountains to Magdalena. The landscape is filled with political signs for the upcoming election, pedestrian overpasses (as I remember having over the track for Formula 1 in Indianapolis) and many…

  • ~Back home in Indiana~

    Hey all!  I just wanted to let you all know that I'm back home safe in Indiana….however, it was difficult to leave my new friends and family back in Magdalena. It seemed that when I began to really get the contentment piece, that is when my trip ended. Although I was there for 5 weeks,…

  • Magdalena-Week 3-4

    Today is Tuesday….in one week from today, Kristen and Allen will be joining me here in Guatemala 🙂  And in exactly a week and half from today (next Friday), the three of us will be heading back to the states! Hard to believe I have been here for almost 4 weeks now. This past week,…

  • Week 2 and a half-Guatemala

    Sorry it's been a while exposed skin care since my last post! I was really sick last week….Down for the count on Thursday…no work, no play, nada! lots of rest and medicine. When I say sick, luckily, I don't mean sick with a parasite….I mean sick with a bad cough/chest congestion and a sinus infection.…

  • Week 2 in Guatemala!

    Hard to believe I am in my second week here already! The beginning part of this week was very difficult for me. I think that the newness of being here began to wear off, and I had a day or two of really missing home, feeling very alone. It was tough, but God is bringing…

  • Magdalena-the end of week 1!

    Buenas noches amigos…..como estas?  Estoy muy bien aqui. Yesterday, I worked in the cooking school with the ladies…It really gave me an opportunity to get into relationship with the women in the school. They asked me a lot about myself….it's cool how much they want to know about me….They asked to see pictures of my…