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T-minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): La(s) Despedida(s) in Santa Clara

By on April 2, 2019

Sunday and Monday were despedida days. Despedir means: To say goodbye. What I love about the Spanish language is that there are verbs that sum-up an action in one word, like aprovechar, to take advantage, which take more than one word in English. And a Despedida is a send-off…


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T-Minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): My Good Name at the Saturday Market

By on March 27, 2019

My favorite güipiles (woven blouses) have birds on the the pattern. Santiago Atitlán is my favorite style of güipil. Always stripes down the blouse and then colorful birds sewn across the neckline. But even the older style of birds on traje, on the ‘puro típico’ they say, the birds…


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T-minus Guatemala (Peace Corps Ending): The Wednesday Takes It All

By on March 24, 2019

On Tuesday night, I couldn’t sleep. A mac track of tasks hit me: packing for a travel day the next day, packing for leaving forever, plus all the work I had to do tomorrow. All of this was stacked with emotions about returning to Santa Lucía Milpas Altas where…

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