I bring you: the Domino's Pizza in GUATEMALA.


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Random picture time again. For reference, Cerra de la Cruz (that place I went up to from the city with the cross?) looks like this from just about anywhere in the city.


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I went to the market in town the other day. The one entrance looks pretty innocuous.


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DID YOU KNOW: Guatemala City (the capital of this country) has almost 50 murders... per day ( Read more... )

So yesterday we had a normal storm for the rainy season, and the water in my house has been out ever since. It's supposed to repeat-storm now for a while because I guess that hurricane/tropical storm is hanging out near us ( Read more... )

For this post I bring you STOLEN GOODS. I found a folder on this computer with someone else's pictures from the visit to Volcan Pacaya. They took a little bit of a different trip up than me, choosing to CLIMB THE CONE instead of climb down into the semi-dry lake of lava. Who is smarter ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up and the roads were closed off and down my street was a bunch of decorations.


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Public basketball court in front of more church ruins.


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So I guess safety is still a little shaky here in Antigua. My teacher says about a month ago there was a string of robberies and assaults and there were a lot of demonstrations in town demanding more security from the police, who sent a few more people around to put up these damn signs that are everywhere saying "la antigua EXIGE seguridad" or ( Read more... )

So I've settled into a pretty good routine here. Wake up and eat breakfast, walk across town to the gym, come back home and eat lunch, go to spanish lessons all afternoon, study until dinner, eat amazing food, and then head out to meet other students and see what fun we can rustle up ( Read more... )